Author : Chester W. Topp
Publisher : Hermitage Antiquarian Book Shop
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN :
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Author : Department of Information & Collections
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402038181
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.
Author : Chester W. Topp
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780963392008
Author : Rolf Loeber
Publisher : Four Courts Press
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
The Guide to Irish Fiction has led to the identification of hundreds of unknown or forgotten Irish authors and their works, and provides thousands of summaries of novels and anthologies. Carefully documented, the book presents details of the publication of Irish fiction in Ireland, England, North America, Australia, as well as several other European countries. Written for literary scholars and students and for anyone interested in Ireland and its literature, this book also constitutes and essential tool for historians, librarians, collectors of Irish books, and antiquarian booksellers.
Author : Neil Pearson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1781387834
This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin.
Author : Ann Radcliffe
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1806
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Karin Scheper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004291113
The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding is the first monograph dedicated to the technical development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the extensive oriental collections in the Leiden University Library, the various sewing techniques, constructions and the application of covering materials are described in great detail. A comparative analysis of the historic treatises on bookbinding provides further insight into the actual making of the Islamic book. In addition, it is demonstrated that variations in time and place can be established with the help of distinctive material characteristics. Karin Scheper’s work refutes the perception of Islamic bookbinding as a weak structure, which has generally but erroneously been typified as a case-binding. Instead, the author argues how diverse methods were used to create sound structures, thus fundamentally challenging our understanding of the Islamic bookbinding practice. Karin Scheper has been awarded the De La Court Award 2016 by The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for her study of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world.
Author : Chester W. Topp
Publisher : Hermitage Antiquarian Book Shop
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Dr. Chester W. Topp has spent 30 years compiling the definitive bibliography of over 25 publishers of Victorian Yellowbacks and Paperbacks. Based on his own extensive library of 1700 Yellowbacks and 1900 19th century paperbacks and an exhaustive search of every major trade and literary journal of the last century, this series of bibliographies represents a unique and major accomplishment in bibliographic studies in the tradition of Jacob Blanck, Michael Sadleir, Joseph Sabin and others.
Author : Iain Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"This is the only general survey of British publishing as a history over the twentieth century. It aims to look at how publishing companies and their owners and staffs were organised and how their output responded to the wider social, economic and cultural trends of the period. It concentrates on the key figures like William Heinemann, Allen Lane, Paul Hamlyn and Robert Maxwell but also looks at less well known but often very significant figures whose contributions were also vital. The study reveals a fascinating and dynamic industry that was influential not only for literary history, but also for the history of education, and general cultural history at home and abroad. Its spread is broad and it considers not only fiction and trade publishing but also scholarly, academic, scientific, children's, technical, medical and professional publishing. It reveals a fascinating tale of creative genius, individual endeavour, personal idiosyncrasy, occasional duplicity and bad behaviour and far-sighted vision that over the century made British book publishing the best in the world and still underlies its role today"--BLACKWELL'S.
Author : Cathleen Baker
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781953421005
