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A century of Alpine postcards from the Isola Press archive, VINTAGE
ALPINE POSTCARDS celebrates Europe's great mountain range. These
dispatches from the Alps take us from men in bowler hats with stout
ropes nonchalantly crawling over crevasses, through the gilded age
of grand hotels and sleigh rides, to the modernist concrete
infrastructure of mountaintop restaurants and cable-car stations.
They frame the changing way we've experienced landscape and leisure
over more than a hundred years - from the intrepid to the banal,
sublime to ridculous and brutalist to kitsch. But postcards travel
through time as well as space, and they arrive with messages from
our former selves. Underlying the Alpenkitsch is a serious
examination of our relationship to nature and how we have used and
abused the beauties of the natural world. And, like sun-burnished
memories of holidays past, their sunlit scenes do not necessarily
correspond to reality. Postcard makers have always used artifice to
conjure fantastic spaces, worlds in which the sky is always blue,
the pine trees resplendent and there is always plenty of fresh
powder. Featuring great views, architecture, infrastructure
Alpinism, hiking and snow sports, VINTAGE ALPINE POSTCARDS is
perfect for skiers, hikers, cyclists and mountain lovers. These
skaters, skiers, sledgers and St Bernards will surprise and delight
mountain aficionados, transporting them to a high altitude holiday
wherever they are.
For German military document collectors this volume has a treasure
trove of rare Afrikakorps related award documents, propaganda
leaflets, Soldbuchs, Wehrpass and Remembrance/Death cards. Among
the many rare documents you will see both Allied and German/Italian
propaganda leaflets, Afrikakorps field newspapers, and two
field-made newsletters associated with the Sonderverband 288 unit.
We have also assembled several complete Afrikakorps veteran
groupings and every known document variant of the AFRIKA cuffband
and Italian-German Medal.
Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts
related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the
long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the
University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist
knowledge in this area, many of these Korean items were largely
neglected. Following on from the publication of the first volume of
these forgotten treasures, this book collects together further
important and often unique objects. Notable items include the only
surviving Korean example of an eighteenth-century world map,
hand-drawn, with a set of twelve globe gores on a single sheet;
rare Korean coins and charms including excellent examples of the
1423 Choson t'ongbo ; official correspondence from the archives of
the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, shining a
light on the history of Christian missions from the opening of
Korea in the 1880s until after the Korean War; photographs from the
end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s showing village and
street scenes; a rare silk coat with inner armour plates of
lacquered hide; a massive iron padlock inlaid with silver character
inscriptions, bronze shoes and Nightingale robe; spectacles with
dark crystal lenses and frames of horn; an elaborately decorated
bow, arrows and quiver and many other rare artefacts.
Take a tour through time and learn about the exciting engineering
developments that allowed the primitive bridges of ancient man
evolve to the masterworks of today. This unique treatment, showing
the large variety of bridge forms, is illustrated with postcards,
archival photographs, and technical drawings and diagrams. These
detailed images show stone arch, suspension, movable, and many more
bridges. Laymen and engineers alike are certain to come away with a
better understanding of the role of bridges in our built
environment from the expert explanations of bridge types,
materials, and construction to amusing anecdotes associated with
these structures. Landmark bridges, construction methods, the
interstate system, railroad bridges, and even bridge disasters are
all documented in this technical record of civil engineering
challenges and feats.
The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series
of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows' top authors document
every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Keith
Dallas headlines this volume on the 1980s, covering all the pivotal
moments and behind-the-scenes details of comics during the Reagan
years! You'll get a year-by-year account of the most significant
publications, notable creators, and impactful trends, including:
The rise and fall of Jim Shooter at Marvel Comics! The ascendancy
of Frank Miller as a comic book superstar with works like
Daredevil, Ronin and The Dark Knight! DC Comics' reboot with Crisis
on Infinite Earths and its Renaissance with a British invasion of
talent like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman! The
emergence of Direct Market-exclusive publishers like Eclipse
Comics, Pacific Comics, First Comics, Comico, Dark Horse Comics and
others! These are just a few of the events chronicled in this
exhaustive, full-color hardcover.Taken together, American Comic
Book Chronicles forms a cohesive, linear overview of the entire
landscape of comics history, sure to be an invaluable resource for
ANY comic book enthusiast!
Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the
subject and contains some of the most beautiful and popular
postcards telling the stories of the first postcard publishers
between 1892 and 1947. The essays cover the major cities and
regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes-from
dancers to religion, to tea, soap, famines, fakirs, humour and
warfare. The volume uncovers such gems as the early postcards of
the great Indian painter M V Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press,
the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata
and a German one in Mumbai. Many of the images in the book have
never been published since their first runs a century ago.
Forever cherish your favorite Christmas traditions and celebrations
with this heirloom-quality memory album! With an elegant linen
cover, archival-quality paper, and hand-drawn illustrations, Our
Christmas Story: A Modern Christmas Memory Book will be a family
treasure for years and generations to come. Cherish your Favorite
Memories: Write down meaningful traditions Remember holiday
celebrations you hosted or attended Record special gifts given or
received Save photos with Santa or annual family Christmas cards
Preserve treasured family recipes And so much more! Heirloom
Quality: Chic, timeless design Elegant linen cover Acid-free and
archival paper Generous 9.75" x 9.75" trim size offers ample space
for photos and cards Lay-flat design allows you to easily write in
the book A pocket to safely store letters to Santa and other
Christmas keepsakes Lovingly designed artwork and thoughtful
prompts encourage you to reflect and celebrate PS: It's the perfect
holiday gift!
Happiness is...a whole new book of Peanuts collectibles! Attention
Peanuts Gang lovers! Here is another huge volume of treasures from
our favorite crowd of kids. Jan Lindenberger has made another visit
to the massive collection of Cher Porges to bring back over six
hundred full color photographs of "Peanut-phernalia" not seen in
any other book! In the enormous field of Peanuts collectibles, this
series is a must, providing the photography, information, and
up-to-date prices you need to keep your collection at its best.
This is a fantastic book for the serious collector, but it's also a
great Peanuts tribute-if you'd rather just play catch with Charlie
Brown, get advice from Lucy, play a duet with Schroeder, fly with
Snoopy against the Red Baron, or hang around the pumpkin patch to
get philosophical with Linus. This book celebrates the wonderful
innocence, cleverness, and unique humor of Charles Schulz's Peanut
Gang.
The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by the Flemish
canon Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives
not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in a
considerable number of later manuscripts which transformed the
knowledge assembled by him and which became starting points for new
appraisals of their texts and images. Shaping Knowledge examines
the processes which determined this transfer over the centuries and
evaluates the specific achievements of the different generations of
scribes and illuminators. Taking account of the full range of
manuscripts which transmit material from the Liber Floridus and
focusing in more detail on three of them - now in the Herzog August
Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, in the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
and in the Abdijarchief of Tongerlo - it shows that the makers of
these manuscripts did not merely select and copy material from the
Liber Floridus, but also organized images and texts in new ways,
sought out different exemplars for them and embarked on compilatory
activities of their own. These relationships at the textual, visual
and conceptual levels are lenses through which we can observe the
networks subsisting among the manuscripts linked to the Liber
Floridus and the much broader group of encyclopedic compilations to
which they belong. Sixteen colour plates and one hundred
black-and-white figures document the role of the visual and
material dimensions of the manuscripts in the processes of
transmission.
This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever
to be published. Dealing with the subject of documentation - which
affects everyone's lives (from every-day letters, notes, and
shopping lists to far-reaching legal instruments, if not autograph
literary masterpieces) - Peter Beal defines, in a lively and
accessible style, some 1,500 terms relating to manuscripts and
their production and use in Britain from 1450 to the present day.
The entries, which range in length from one line to nearly a
hundred lines each, cover terms defining types of manuscript, their
physical features and materials, writing implements, writing
surfaces, scribes and other writing agents, scripts, postal
markings, and seals, as well as subjects relating to literature,
bibliography, archives, palaeography, the editing and printing of
manuscripts, dating, conservation, and such fields as cartography,
commerce, heraldry, law, and military and naval matters. The book
includes 96 illustrations showing many of the features described.
Editor's Choice, The Bookseller A mix of memoir and narrative
non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion
for Picador's fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to
the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity shops,
the books themselves, and the way a unique collection grew and
became a literary obsession. Above all a love song to books,
writers and writing.
Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest
format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers,
collectors, and others through the centuries because of their
unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today.
The small lettering and the delicate pages, binding, and covers
highlight the material form of texts and invite sensory engagement
and appreciation. This volume addresses miniature books with a
special focus on religious books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim,
Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The book presents various empirical
contexts for how the smallest books have been produced,
distributed, and used in different times and cultures and also
provides theoretical reflections and comments that discuss the
divergent formats and functions of books.
The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of
classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has
long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches
of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum
of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the
best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature
and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the
eleventh.
The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at
Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian
libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon
England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost
completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined
in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving
inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and
patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves.
After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence,
the book is provided with appendices containing editions of all
surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon
manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth
century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the
tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and
patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors.
A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines
these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a
glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon
England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast
amount of information on thebooks and learning of the schools which
determined the course of medieval literary culture.
This book pioneers a branch of periodical studies that is
distinctive to the concerns, contexts and media of Britain's
Romantic age. Eleven chapters by leading scholars showcase the
range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical
insights to be drawn from just one of the era's landmark literary
periodicals, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Drawing in particular
on the trove of newly digitised content, these chapters model how
careful analyses of the incisive and often inflammatory commentary,
criticism and original literature from Blackwood's first two
decades (1817 37) might inform and expand many of the most vibrant
contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.
This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic "cabinet" of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, "the Prince of Bibliophiles", have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable information on Grolier and Hurtado de Mendoza's work, including catalogues, lists of bindings and indexes of printers, publishers, editors, commentators and translators.
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https://bit.ly/2M3fDa7 This volume presents six papers from a
one-day colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in February 2015
on the legacy of Aldus Manutius, marking the 500th anniversary of
his death, together with three additional contributions. Rather
than examining Aldus's own output, the nine papers focus on how the
notion of `Aldine books' has changed over 500 years in Europe and
North America, from the early days of the Aldine press to modern
and contemporary book collecting and the antiquarian trade. The
volume also includes a catalogue of the exhibition `Collecting the
Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494-1598)', held in the British
Library in conjunction with the colloquium. Addressing a wide
readership of scholars, booksellers and collectors, The Afterlife
of Aldus aims to stimulate further research on areas fundamental
for understanding Aldus's long-lasting fortuna. The conference, the
exhibition and this volume have received generous financial support
from the Bibliographical Society, CERL and Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
BL Contains substantial discussions of Donne, Shakespeare,
Rochester, and Swift Long after the establishment of printing in
England, many writers and composers still preferred to publish
their work through handwritten copies. Texts so transmitted
included some of the most distinguished poetry and music of the
seventeenth century, along with a rich variety of political.
scientific, antiquarian, and philosophical writings. While
censorship was one reason for this persistence of the older
practice, scribal publication remained the norm for texts which
were required only in small numbers, or whose authors wished to
avoid `the stigma of print'. The present study is the first to
consider the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to
that in printed books, and to descrice the agencies that met the
need for rapid duplication of key texts. By integrating the large
body of findings already available concerning particular texts and
authors it provides an arresting new perspective on authorship and
the communication of ideas.
At first glance, esthetic experience and editing appear to have
very little in common. But even on such apparently safe ground as
philological editing this impression turns out to be wrong. An
editor who ignores the esthetic richness of the material he is
working on may divert the attention of his edition's recipient away
from essential features of the work of art in question. This
collection is the fruit of a conference at which numerous editors
and editing experts from various disciplines discussed the
theoretical and practical consequences of such a constellation and
their implications for the history of scholarship.
"Cave, City, And Eagle's Nest" is the culmination of an
international research project and series of conferences, organized
by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century
pictorial manuscript known as the "Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2."
Painted on bark paper and measuring 109 x 204 centimeters, this
extraordinary document contains over seven hundred images and
symbols relating the story of the emergence of ancestors at
Chicomoztoc (Place of Seven Caves), their migration to the sacred
city of Cholula, their foundation and settlement of Cuauhtinchan
(Place of the Eagle's Nest), their community's history and claim
over the surrounding landscape, and many other occurrences along
the way.
Dating from around the 1540s, barely two decades after the fall
of the Aztecs, the "mapa" recently underwent extensive physical
analysis, conservation, and a systematic photographic survey. These
rare images--including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly
quarter-size facsimile--accompany fifteen richly illustrated essays
that explore the meanings and uses of the document, its complex
narrative, and the social and ritual memory of an indigenous
community struggling to hold its own in the turbulent atmosphere of
early colonial Mexico.
A sequel to Tomita's A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books
Printed in England 1558-1603, this volume provides the data for the
succeeding 40 years (during the reign of King James I and Charles
I) and contributes to the study of Anglo-Italian relations in
literature through entries on 187 Italian books (335 editions)
printed in England. The Catalogue starts with the books published
immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth I on 24 March 1603,
and ends in 1642 with the closing of English theatres. It also
contains 45 Elizabethan books (75 editions), which did not feature
in the previous volume. Formatted along the lines of Mary Augusta
Scott's Elizabethan Translations from the Italian (1916), and
adopting Philip Gaskell's scientific method of bibliographical
description, this volume provides reliable and comprehensive
information about books and their publication, viewed in a general
perspective of Anglo-Italian transactions in Jacobean and part of
Caroline England.
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an
introduction to the language and concepts employed in
bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to
early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable
Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American
Publishers Prose Awards, 2010 Based almost exclusively on new
primary research Explains the complex process of viewing documents
as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly
and how to read their physical properties Demonstrates how to use
the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of
literary documents Makes clear why such matters are important and
the purposes to which such information is put Features
illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in
order to keep the discussion fresh
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