provenance & collecting
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John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors, revised and enlarged by Nicolas Barker and Simran Thadani
John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors, revised and enlarged by Nicolas Barker and Simran Thadani, 9th edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 264p., 32 illus. (22 colour and…
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Sasha Abramsky. The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Sasha Abramsky. The House of Twenty Thousand Books. New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. 359 p. ill. ISBN 9781590178881. US $27.95 This wondrously absorbing, eloquently written, well-researched memoir…
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Rebecca Rego Barry with a Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places
Rebecca Rego Barry with a Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Press, 2015. 256p., ill. ISBN 9780760348611.…
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Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91
Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. 296p. ISBN: 9783447105453. € 85.00. A notable feature of this volume is the number of English-language contributions. It would seem highly appropriate…
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Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book
Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book. Thematic Issue of the Yearbook of English Studies, no. 45. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015. 296p., ill. ISBN…
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Antje Willing, ed. Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Katharina zu Nürnberg
Antje Willing, ed. Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Katharina zu Nürnberg. Synoptische Darstellung der Bücherverzeichnisse. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012. 2 vol., 1517p. (vol. 1: cxiv, 844p.; vol. 2: vi, 674p.).…
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Kate Loveman. Samuel Pepys and His Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703
Kate Loveman. Samuel Pepys and His Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii, 318p., ill. ISBN 9780198732686. £60 (hardback). The main title of Kate Loveman’s…