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Bibliomania : or book madness : a bibliographical romance, in six parts
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ISBN: 0511710712 1108015808 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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'A passion for possessing books, not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them': thus is described 'bibliomania' by one of the characters of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, in this humorous novel first published in 1809. Introduced in English at the end of the 18th century, the term 'bibliomania' gained popularity with the publication of Dibdin's eponymous work. Using the entirely revised 1811 edition, this reissue brings back to life Dibdin's bibliomaniac characters and their playful dialogues on the nature and history of book collecting, and, most importantly, on the dangers of the 'fatal disease' that is bibliomania, its strange manifestations - such as the 'vellum', 'first edition', and 'unique copies' symptoms - and its possible cure. The author of numerous bibliographical works, Dibdin provides erudite comments and clarifications to his characters' dialogues in a parallel narrative of footnotes.


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The love affairs of a bibliomaniac.
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ISBN: 1536113239 9781536113235 9781604566260 1604566264 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,

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Reading Matters : Five Centuries of Acquiring Books
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ISBN: 0300142366 0300127294 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period-most of which have survived-showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women.Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.


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Radical Chapters : Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution
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ISBN: 0815650833 9780815650836 9780815610069 0815610068 Year: 2012 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

Cultural politics in fifteenth-century England
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ISBN: 9004137130 9786610914883 9047404904 1280914882 1429414766 9781429414760 9789004137134 9789047404903 9781280914881 6610914885 Year: 2004 Volume: 124 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands Boston Brill

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This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority. Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey's commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey's donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation's cultural autonomy.


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Les réseaux du livre islamique : parcours parisiens
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ISSN: 12428671 ISBN: 2271063922 2271078199 9782271063922 Year: 2006 Publisher: CNRS Éditions

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En proposant d'appréhender les populations musulmanes de France par le biais du livre islamique et de ses circuits de distribution, cet ouvrage offre une lecture nouvelle et pertinente de l'islam hexagonal. L'ouverture de librairies islamiques comme la prolifération des points de vente plus informels d'ouvrages portant sur la pratique religieuse musulmane dans les quartiers parisiens de la Goutte d'Or et de la Folie Méricourt datent du milieu des années 1980. Ce phénomène, que l'auteur décrit et analyse en détail, offre la matière à une véritable sociologie urbaine de ces quartiers traditionnellement dévolus à l'accueil des migrants dans l'espace parisien. L'apparition des librairies signale l'aboutissement du processus d'installation pérenne et de communautarisation dans des espaces faussement perçus comme abandonnés et marginalisés. Qui sont cependant les clients fréquentant les librairies ? Quelle relation les lecteurs entretiennent-ils avec le livre islamique ? Quelles sont les motivations conduisant à l'acquisition d'ouvrages mais aussi d'objets en relation à l'islam ? Pour répondre à ces questions, l'auteur s'est livré à une véritable enquête portant sur les catalogues, les thèmes, les auteurs mais aussi les réseaux de distribution, du Beyrouth des années 1980-1990 à la naissance d'une imprimerie islamique parisienne. Cette sociologie historique des réseaux de production du livre s'achève au moment où les indices d'une crise de la demande deviennent manifestes. Comment expliquer cette crise ? Quelle recomposition annonce-t-elle ? Et surtout, que nous dit-elle sur les dynamiques de l'islam en France ? L'auteur livre sur ce point un faisceau d'analyses fort documentées qui sont bien loin des idées reçues.


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Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England
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ISBN: 9780226781716 0226781712 0226781704 9786611966614 1281966614 0226781720 9780226781709 9780226781723 9781281966612 6611966617 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.


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Poetic modernism in the culture of mass print
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ISBN: 9781421421346 9781421421353 1421421356 1421421348 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century--with lasting implications for the poetry and media landscape. Drawing upon extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, Brinkman demonstrates that a variety of print collecting practices--including the anthology, the periodical, the collage poem, volumes of selected and collected poems, and the modern poetry archive--helped structure key formal and institutional sites of poetic modernism. Brinkman focuses on the generative role of book collecting practices and the negotiation of print ephemera in scrapbooks. He also traces the evolution of the modern poetry archive as a particular case of the mid-twentieth-century rise of literary archives and identifies parallels between the beginning of mass print culture at the end of the nineteenth century and the growth of digital culture today. Advocating for a transatlantic modernism that stretches roughly from 1880 to 1960--one that incorporates both popular and canonical poets--Brinkman successfully extends the geographical, historical, and vertical dimensions of modernist studies. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but also to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals.


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Documenting the Early Modern Book World
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ISBN: 9789004258891 9789004258907 9004258906 9004258892 9781306070904 1306070902 Year: 2013 Volume: 23 31 Publisher: Leiden BRILL

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Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional and valuable resource: book lists. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners catalogued their libraries; religious authorities drew up indexes of banned books; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. This volume examines an array of such lists taken from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The result is a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history. Contributors include: Jürgen Beyer, Flavia Bruni, Gina Dahl, Cristina Dondi, Shanti Graheli, Neil Harris, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Alexander Marr, Kasper van Ommen, Andrea Ottone, Leigh T.I. Penman, Benito Rial Costas, John Sibbald, Kevin M. Stevens and Malcolm Walsby.

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Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 094 "14/16" --- 091 --- 094 <4> --- 017 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1699 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Europa --- Catalogi--(algemeen) --- Bibliography --- Early printed books --- Library catalogs --- Private libraries --- Booksellers' catalogs --- Book collecting --- Book industries and trade --- History --- Catalogs --- History. --- 017 Catalogi--(algemeen) --- 094 <4> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Europa --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- private collections --- book catalogs --- sales catalogs --- bookstocks --- inventories --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book collectors --- Catalogs, Library --- Books --- Catalogs, Booksellers' --- Commercial catalogs --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Bibliophily --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book lists --- Lists of publications --- Publication lists --- Documentation --- Information resources --- Abstracts --- Codicology --- Library science --- Catalogs&delete& --- 017 Bibliography and bibliographies. Catalogues --- Bibliography and bibliographies. Catalogues --- private collections [object groupings]

La Bibliothèque de l'honnête homme : Livres, lecture et collections en France à l'âge classique
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ISSN: 16307798 ISBN: 2717722491 2717722254 271772222X 9782717722499 Year: 2016 Volume: *3 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France,

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Avant de se figer comme d’autres, et peut-être plus facilement encore que d’autres, dans des attitudes satisfaites et des conduites convenues, la figure de l’honnête homme est dans son exigence d’origine, au XVIIe siècle, une figure inquiète de la culture : inquiétude vécue non pas dans les affres de la souffrance et la douleur grandiloquente des idéaux ascétiques, mais portée avec gaieté et naturel, dans la discrétion d’un détachement amusé de lui-même — bref, inquiétude ayant rang d’ironie. C’est de cette ironie qu’il est ici question, des formes qu’elle prend dans la considération des livres et des effets qu’elle produit dans leur maniement. Bousculant les habitudes et les représentations établies par l’humanisme savant de la Renaissance, revendiquant le patronage provocateur de Montaigne qui prétendait avoir « peu de pratique avec les livres », l’honnête homme construit un nouveau modèle de bibliothèque né de l’ambition de reconduire toujours le monde hiératique et autoritaire de l’écrit au monde changeant et mobile de la vie. Aussi la «bibliothèque de l’honnête homme» est-elle entendue ici dans un sens large, qui envisage les diverses voies qu’emprunte la résolution du conflit des lettres et du monde : elle est non seulement l’espace concret et arpentable des livres qu’on range sur les rayons d’une pièce désignée, qu’on classe en catégories (histoire et belles-lettres), qu’on distribue en genres (mémoires, livres de conversations, nouvelles galantes et historiques, etc.), qu’on relie de telle manière de préférence à telle autre, mais elle est aussi la métaphore des lectures idéales qu’on se prend à rêver d’être un prolongement naturel de l’entretien de vive voix — lectures menées, selon le mot de Montaigne, « par forme de conférence, non de régence », animées par la recherche d’une communication d’esprit au-delà de la transmission d’un savoir, comme un autre « art de conférer ». Bibliothèque réelle et bibliothèque imaginaire à la fois, la bibliothèque de…

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