provenance & collecting
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Lauren Alex O’Hagan. The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach.
O’Hagan’s monograph unpacks the materiality, social and cultural meanings, and practices of book inscription during the Edwardian period in the UK. It will not only be essential for bibliographers interested…
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Pearson, David. Book Owners Online.
Book Owners Online (BOO) is the work of the distinguished book historian David Pearson and a technical team that have helped translate his long-respected bibliography “English Book Owners in the…
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Sheila Liming. What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books.
The 2,700-plus books at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic Berkshire estate, represent only a portion of the novelist’s remarkable collection. Another 2,500 volumes, which one of Wharton’s heirs stored in…
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Timothy R. Jackson, ed. Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin
Timothy R. Jackson, ed. Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2016. 262p., ill. ISBN 9781843516750. €50.00 (hardcover). Frozen in…
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Marie Elena Korey, ed. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour – A Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon
Richard Landon, ed. with an introduction by Marie Elena Korey. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour – A Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon. New Castle,…
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Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. ix, 272p., ill. ISBN 9781421421346. US $50.00. Bartholomew Brinkman’s surprising, skillfully argued Poetic Modernism…
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Australasian Rare Book School: The Origins of Rare Books
Australasian Rare Book School The Origins of Rare Books University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ 30 January–3 February 2017 This summer, thanks to SHARP’s excellent scholarship program, I was fortunate enough…
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Michael Dirda. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
Michael Dirda. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books. New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2015. x, 246p. ISBN 9781605988443. US$ 24.95 (hardback). Michael Dirda takes his…