Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of Rare and Choice Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters
Author : Rosenbach Company
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Page : 129 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Rosenbach Company
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Page : 129 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Rosenbach Company
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Page : 129 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American literature
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Author : Richard De Bury
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0486832465
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362286
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal has been published annually since 1974. It contains scholarly articles and shorter notes pertaining to objects in the Museum’s seven curatorial departments: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Decorative Arts, Sculpture and Works of Art, and Photographs. The Journal includes an illustrated checklist of the Museum’s acquisitions for the precious year, a staff listing, and a statement by the Museum’s director outlining the year’s most important activities. Volume 20 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal contains an index to volumes 1 to 20 and includes articles by John Walsh, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Barbara Bohen, Kelly Pask, Suzanne Lewis, Elizabeth Pilliod, Anne Ratzki-Kraatz, Sharon K. Shore, Linda A. Strauss, Brian Considine, Arie Wallert, Richard Rand, And Jacky De Veer-Langezaal.
Author : William Charvat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231070775
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.
Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0745957633
A society with no grasp of its history is like a person without a memory. This is particularly true of the history of ideas. This book is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have shaped Christian history and the culture of much of the world. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Jonathan Hill takes us on an enlightening journey from the first to the twenty first centuries. He shows us the key Christian thinkers through the ages - ranging from Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine and Aquinas through to Luther, Wesley, Kierkegaard and Barth - placing them in their historical context and assessing their contribution to the development of Christianity.
Author : Jane Kingsley-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107170656
An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Dead Sea Scrolls
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The story of a young Bedouin goatherd who found some dark oblong objects, which turned out to be a series of scrolls.