A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 PDF Author: Roger Eliot Stoddard
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.

A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 PDF Author: Roger Eliot Stoddard
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.

The First White House Library

The First White House Library PDF Author: Catherine M. Parisian
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103713X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.

Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole PDF Author: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252068
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole’s relationships with his family and friends, his politics, his writings and printmaking activities, and his correspondence. Featuring portraits of Walpole, his relatives, and friends; images of Walpole's sketches and manuscripts; pages from books printed at Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press; and views and plans of Strawberry Hill, the house, its rooms and furnishings, and its grounds, and accompanied by Lewis’s extensive annotations, this book provides an invaluable history of an extraordinary man.

The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America

The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America PDF Author: Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Studies in Bibliography

Studies in Bibliography PDF Author: University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Vol. 10 is a special anniversary volume entitled Selective check lists of bibliographical scholarship, 1949-1955.

Essays in Bibliographical History

Essays in Bibliographical History PDF Author: George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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The state of bibliography today (1979) -- Physical bibliography in the twentieth century (1979) -- The evolving role of bibliography (1984) -- Issues in bibliographical studies since 1942 (1992) -- Years on : bibliography then and now (2003) -- Thoughts on the centenary of The Bibliographical Society of America (2004) -- The historiography of American literary publishing (1965) -- The Bibliographical Society's News sheet, 1894-1920 (1967) -- The descriptive bibliography of American authors (1968) -- Copyright records and the bibliographer (1969) -- The periodical literature of English and American bibliography (1968) -- Indianapolis in the world of books (1973) -- Bibliography and science (1974) -- The descriptive bibliography of eighteenth-century books (1975) -- The centennial meeting and convocation of the Grolier Club (1984) -- Exhibitions at the Grolier Club (1984) -- The varieties of scholarly editing (1985) -- The fiftieth anniversary of The Bibliographical Society of the University Of Virginia (1997) -- A history of Studies in bibliography : the first fifty years (1997) -- A brief history of the English short-title catalogue in North America (1998) -- Some thoughts on catalogues (2008) -- The textual criticism of visual and aural works (2008) -- Bibliographical history as a field of study (1988).

Book Ownership in Stuart England

Book Ownership in Stuart England PDF Author: David Pearson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198870124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.

Transactions of the Bibliographical Society

Transactions of the Bibliographical Society PDF Author: Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book-jackets

Book-jackets PDF Author: George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
ISBN: 9781883631130
Category : Book jackets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book-jackets (or "dust-jackets," as they are often called), along with other detachable book coverings such as slip-cases, have been regularly used by publishers in the English-speaking world and some countries of the European continent since the early part of the nineteenth century. Historians of publishing practices, however, have not accorded them the scrutiny that one might have expected such a ubiquitous and noticeable phenomenon to receive. This illustrated book is intended as a compact introduction to the historical study of these objects, which -- though removable from the books they cover -- are essential parts of those books as published. The present work offers a concise history both of publishers' detachable book coverings (primarily British and American) and of the attention they have received from scholars, dealers, collectors, and librarians. It also surveys their use by publishers (as protective devices and advertising media) and their usefulness to scholars of literature, art, and book history (as sources for biography, bibliography, cultural analysis, and the development of graphic design). In effect, the book constitutes a plea for the preservation and cataloguing of this significant class of material, so that it will be available for future examination. Following the text is a list of some of the surviving pre-1901 examples of British and American publishers' printed book-jackets and other detachable coverings. This list, with 1,888 entries, is the outgrowth of a process the author began in 1969: he has kept a record of every pre-1901 jacket that he came across or learned about. Because surviving jackets from the nineteenth century are scarce (most having been thrown away by the original booksellers or purchasers of the books), and because the large majority of those that do survive are known in only a single copy, it is important to have a listing that indicates their whereabouts, or at least the basis for knowing that they exist or once existed. The list thus provides a guide to the body of evidence on which generalizations about the history of nineteenth-century jackets must be based, until more examples are reported. The book also contains two image sections: the first containing eight black-and-white plates, and the second containing sixteen color plates. G. Thomas Tanselle, former vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and adjunct professor of English at Columbia University, is president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the writings of Herman Melville. He has previously served as president of the Bibliographical Society of America, the Grolier Club, and the Society for Textual Scholarship. His books include Royall Tyler (1967), Guide to the Study of United States Imprints (1971), A Rationale of Textual Criticism (1989), Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990), The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers (1993), Literature and Artifacts (1998), Textual Criticism since Greg (2005), and Bibliographical Analysis (2009). His collection of American imprints is in the Beinecke Library at Yale, where his assemblage of nineteenth-century book-jackets will soon be placed as well.

John Dee's Library Catalogue

John Dee's Library Catalogue PDF Author: Richard Julian Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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John Dee (1527-1609) has emerged as one of the most influential figures in the intellectual history of Tudor England. Though best known in his own time as a mathematician, he had a host of other interests (including navigation, astrology and astronomy, cabbala, alchemy, paracelsian medicine, and Welsh history) and was one of the first scholars to advocate collecting manuscripts from the dissolved monastic libraries. Indeed his own library was perhaps the largest assembled in England by one man before 1600. This study, which includes a facsimile of the detailed catalogue of 1583, recounts for the first time the growth of Dee's library, the raid made upon it during his absence in Poland, and its dispersal after his death. The book also describes the location of his surviving books and manuscripts.