Auction catalogue, books of Richard Heber, 29 February to 12 March 1836
Author : R. H. Evans (London)
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : R. H. Evans (London)
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : Helen Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192568566
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance AmadÃs de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.
Author : Robin Myers
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
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This work examines book auctions since the 17th century. The auction has provided a commercial focus for sectors of the book trade for over four centuries. Initiated on the continent of Europe, the practice was adopted in London in the late 17th century, rapidly becoming a primary system for the collecting and dispersal of books. The development in the 19th century of the great London-based auction houses created a new commercial environment in which books and works of art became part of a worldwide cultural agenda. This volume is the 20th in the Publishing Pathways series.
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Sir Thomas Phillipps
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1970
Category : English literature
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Frank Karslake
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Autographs
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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Books
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Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Books
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