Libraries And The Book Trade - The Formation Of Collections From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century

Myers, Robin - Harris, Michael - Mandelbrote, Giles [editors]

ISBN 10: 1873040601 / ISBN 13: 9781873040607

Published by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2000

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Printed boards, F. xiv+192pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. A collection of eight papers read at rthe 1999 21st annual conference on the hisotry of the book trade. Contains - Booksellers And Libraries In Sixteenth-Century Cambridge by E.S. Leedham-Green - The Latin Stock (1616-1627) And Its Library Contacts by R J. Roberts - Booksellers, Peruke-Makers, And Rabbit-Merchants : The Growth Of Circulating Libraries In The Eighteenth Century by K.A. Manley - Mr Greenbill, Whom You Cannot Get Rid Of: Copyright, Legal Deposit And The Stationers' Company In The Nineteenth Century by Simon Eliot - Sir George Grey And The English Antiquarian Book by Donald Kerr - William Augustus White Of Brooklyn (1843-1927) And The Dispersal Of His Elizabethan Library by Leslie A. Morris - Collecting An Aldine: Castiglione's Libro Del Cortegiao (1528) Through The Centuries by Conor Fahy - Bookbinding For Libraries by Esther Potter. 550 grams.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Libraries And The Book Trade - The Formation Of Collections From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Press, New Castle
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873040601
• ISBN 13: 9781873040607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

The close relationship between the book trade and the growth of libraries is the focus of this collection of essays. Contributions include Leslie Morris on the complex affiliations between collector, librarian and bookseller, among others.