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.

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.

Typographia

Typographia
Author: Thomas F. Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429619049

Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice, common enough not to require explanation or acknowledgement ( much less apology), was documented by Lawrence C. Wroth in 1935. Citing borrowed passages and devising a literary family tree, Wroth measured the original work of typographical writers from Moxon to De Vinne, with much more praise for them but with less for those in between. The author who, whose Typographia is reprinted here, was found to be the worst and boldest of offenders.

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.

The Butterfly Books

The Butterfly Books
Author: Nicolas Barker
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1987
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: