The Invention of Rare Books

The Invention of Rare Books
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1108428320

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.

British Art Show 8

British Art Show 8
Author: Anna Colin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781853323317

Exhibition catalogue. Curators Anna Colin & Lydia Yee have chosen 42 contemporary artists for this years touring exhibition. The exhibition will tour Leeds Art Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, as well as the John Hansard Gallery (University of Southampton) and the Southampton City Art Gallery between October 2015 and January 2017.

Bibliomania

Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 804
Release: 1876
Genre: Bibliographical literature
ISBN:

Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books

Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
Author: R. A. Gekoski
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786714520

A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.