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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter
Includes full descriptions of over 100 items on show at the Grolier
Club, January 26-March 10, 2006. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and
printed in an edition of 525 copies.
An account of what papyrology is and what the papyrologist does. _
Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text
and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England.
Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book
production in the period between 1540 and 1700 to shape the
experience of reading. William W. E. Slights considers overlooked
evidence of the ways that early modern readers were instructed to
process information, to contest opinions, and to make themselves
into fully responsive consumers of texts.
The recent revolution in the protocols of reading brought on by
computer technology has forced questions about the nature of
book-based knowledge in our global culture. Managing Readers traces
changes in the protocols of annotation and directed reading--from
medieval religious manuscripts and Renaissance handbooks for
explorers, rhetoricians, and politicians to the elegant clear-text
editions of the Enlightenment and the hypertexts of our own time.
Developing such concepts as textual authority, generic difference,
and reader-response, Slights demonstrates that printed marginalia
were used to confirm the authority of the text and to undermine it,
to supplement "dark" passages, and to colonize strategic
hermeneutic spaces. The book contains twenty-two illustrations of
pages from rare-book archives that make immediately clear how
distinctive the management of the reading experience was during the
first century-and-a-half of printing in England.
William W. E. Slights is Professor of English, University of
Saskatchewan. He is also author of "Ben Jonson and the Art of
Secrecy,"
Influential scholars from Britain and North America discuss future
directions in rapidly expanding field of manuscript study. The
study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current
research in medieval studies: manuscripts are the basic primary
material evidence for literary scholars, historians and
art-historians alike, and there has been an explosion of interest
over the past twenty years. Manuscript study has developed
enormously: codices are no longer treated as inert witnesses to a
culture whose character has already been determined by the modern
scholar, but are active participants in a process of exploration
and discovery. The articles collected here discuss the future of
this process and vital questions about manuscript study for
tomorrow's explorers. They deal with codicology and book
production, with textual criticism, with the material structure of
the medieval book, with the relation of manuscripts to literary
culture, to social history and to the medieval theatre, and with
the importance to manuscript study of the emerging technology of
computerised digitisation and hypertext display. The essays provide
an end-of-millennium perspective on the most vigorous developments
in a rapidly expanding field of study. Contributors: A.I. Doyle, C.
David Benson, Martha W. Driver, J.P. Gumbert, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,
Linne R. Mooney, Eckehard Simon, Alison Stones, John Thompson.
DEREK PEARSALL is former Professor and Co-Director of the Centre
for Medieval Studies, York, and Professor of English at Harvard
University.
When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object
of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the
development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter.
Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea
took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how
collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to
identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that
many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of
rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the
principal means of memory, this process also created particular
kinds of remembering. Taking a European perspective, McKitterick
looks at these interests as they developed from being matters of
largely private concern and curiosity, to the larger public and
national responsibilities of the first half of the nineteenth
century.
Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great
literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin
Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity
shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the defining
collection of the world's worst inadvertently hilarious books. This
book will guide you through the hinterland of celebrity
autobiography, unearthing underappreciated classics such as those
by It Ain't Half Hot Mum's Don Estelle and the brother of a former
PM (MAJOR MAJOR). It offers a detailed study of romance sub-genres,
from the equine (DIAMOND STUD) to the gynaecological (SIGN OF THE
SPECULUM). And it will prove invaluable to anyone who wants to know
THE SECRETS OF PICKING UP SEXY GIRLS. Above all, the Book Club is a
manual - almost a life guide - training you up for membership of
the Grand Order of Curators of Books That Should Never Have Been.
Join the club.
An illustrated history of football trade cards, an epic saga of
1,000 brands and myriad collections. The A-Z traces the earliest
cards and stickers - British inventions, both - through a century
of sports cards from tobacco cards to Panini stickers, via
everything that came in between: footballers issued with chewing
gum and sweet cigarettes, lucky bag mementoes, football teams cut
from packets of tea, and many more. It chronicles the epoch of our
forefathers and the very first football cards, dating back to the
1880s, followed by the era of their children and the earliest
stickers - and so the rise of cigarette cards and paper soccer star
adhesives. These days, along with our Panini stickers and trading
cards, we appreciate these vintage treasures not only for their
beauty but also for their value. Fond recollections of childhood
passions past and present will warm hearts, while enchanting
galleries of rarely seen cards will captivate football fans and
collectors alike. Incorporating a guide to values, the A-Z is
priceless.
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary
deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions
that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book
looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to
claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers
were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who
trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the "intercultural
hoax." In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest
Carter's The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy's Sarah are two
infamous examples. Miller's contribution is to study hoaxes beyond
our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French
and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their
better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is
generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus
be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as
Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can
only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to
appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has
never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to
this understudied tradition, Impostors examines hoaxes in both
countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of
harm.
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an
estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that
was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By
burning and looting libraries and censoring ""un-German""
publications, the Nazis aimed to eradicate all traces of Jewish
culture along with the Jewish people themselves.""The Holocaust and
the Book"" examines this bleak chapter in the history of printing,
reading, censorship, and libraries. The topics include the
development of Nazi censorship policies, the celebrated library of
the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic
communities in Rome and Salonika, the experience of reading in the
ghettos and concentration camps, the rescue of Polish incunabula,
the uses of fine printing by the Dutch underground, and the
suppression of Jewish books and authors in the Soviet Union.
Several authors discuss the continuing relevance of Nazi book
burnings to the present day, with essays on German responses to
Friedrich Nietzsche and the destruction of Bosnian libraries in the
1990s.The collection also includes eyewitness accounts by Holocaust
survivors and a translation of Herman Kruk's report on the Vilna
ghetto library. An annotated bibliography offers readers a concise
guide to research in this growing field.
Little is known about William Clarke, the author of this 1819
survey of libraries in Britain, though hints in the opening pages
suggest that he was acquainted with the activities of the Roxburghe
Club. His object is 'to assist ... the collector in his pursuit of
valuable editions of rare books'. A short survey of the major
libraries of Europe is followed by descriptions of the collections
which make up the British Museum's library, the great 'public'
libraries, including those of Oxford and Cambridge, and the
libraries of learned societies. Private libraries covered include
those of Sir Joseph Banks, William Beckford, and the duke of
Marlborough. The final portion of the work describes the content of
some great library sales (a fuller list of sales having been given
earlier in the book), from the seventeenth century to Clarke's own
time. This remains a useful source for bibliographers and those
interested in the provenance of books.
Originally published in 1948, this book contains the text of the
Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for the previous year. Carter
reflects upon the evolution and method of book collecting from the
middle of the nineteenth century until the 1940s, and meditates on
what it means to be a book collector, the changing definition of
that term, and recent developments in collecting styles. This book
will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliophilism or the
history of book collecting.
Learn when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with Card Night, a
collection of 52 classic card games, including rules and
strategies. Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, and
two indexes that organize each game by difficulty and number of
players needed, Card Night includes directions for playing all the
most popular card games, including Hearts and Bridge, Rummy and Go
Fish. In addition to providing the rules of standard game play,
Card Night also details the fascinating stories and peculiarities
behind some of the world's most famous card decks, some of which
were used as currency, tools for propaganda, and even as a means
for sending coded messages. Offering one game for each week of the
year, Card Night is the go-to companion for weekly game nights,
long car rides, and rainy days spent at home. Wow your friends and
family with your game playing prowess and keep them entertained
with fascinating details from playing card history.
Music, like books, has attracted collectors for centuries; but
whereas book-collecting has been well served by innumerable
scholarly monographs and studies, the history and techniques of
music-collecting have been largely ignored. In choosing British
music collectors as the subject of his Sandars lectures, Mr King
did much to redress this neglect; and here, in this 1963 volume,
these lectures form the first book on the subject in any language.
In the course of four lectures Mr King describes the interests and
activities of nearly two hundred collectors. He gives details of
the rare or interesting items owned by each, and in doing so says
something of the character and purpose of collecting in different
periods. His researches into the transmission and location of
manuscripts and rare printed items carry us through an absorbing
range of musical topics, and reveal a remarkable breadth of taste
and interest among amateur collectors.
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