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First Artists of the Rubaiyat, A Complete, Illustrated Guide (Paperback): Danton H. O'Day First Artists of the Rubaiyat, A Complete, Illustrated Guide (Paperback)
Danton H. O'Day
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Managing Readers - Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Hardcover): William W.E. Slights Managing Readers - Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Hardcover)
William W.E. Slights
R2,771 Discovery Miles 27 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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,"

New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies - Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (Hardcover): Derek Pearsall New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies - Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (Hardcover)
Derek Pearsall; Contributions by A.I. Doyle, Alison Stones, C. David Benson, Eckehard Simon, …
R2,350 Discovery Miles 23 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Invention of Rare Books - Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840 (Paperback): David McKitterick The Invention of Rare Books - Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840 (Paperback)
David McKitterick
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Robin Ince's Bad Book Club - One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot (Paperback): Robin Ince Robin Ince's Bad Book Club - One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot (Paperback)
Robin Ince
R394 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Miniature Book) (Hardcover): Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Miniature Book) (Hardcover)
Arthur Conan Doyle
R461 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R89 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An A to Z of Football Collectibles - Priceless Cigarette Cards and Sought-After Soccer Stickers (Hardcover): Carl Wilkes An A to Z of Football Collectibles - Priceless Cigarette Cards and Sought-After Soccer Stickers (Hardcover)
Carl Wilkes 1
R849 R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

50 The States of America Coloring Book - Proud of the USA Color 50 Beautiful Pages of United States And 50 States Nature and... 50 The States of America Coloring Book - Proud of the USA Color 50 Beautiful Pages of United States And 50 States Nature and more illustration Perfect Easy To Color And Learn More Details For States Symbols and Icons for Ages 4-8 (Paperback)
Atkins White Publication
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impostors - Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity (Paperback): Christopher Miller Impostors - Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity (Paperback)
Christopher Miller
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Vintage Dry Goods Catalog Pages - 20-sheet Collection of Ephemera (Paperback): C. Anders Vintage Dry Goods Catalog Pages - 20-sheet Collection of Ephemera (Paperback)
C. Anders
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Best of Art - 50 Mandalas - An Adult Coloring Book Featuring 50 of the World's Most Beautiful Mandalas for Stress Relief... Best of Art - 50 Mandalas - An Adult Coloring Book Featuring 50 of the World's Most Beautiful Mandalas for Stress Relief and Relaxation (Paperback)
Mouad Ad
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The genius secret behaviors - 11 daily habits of geniuses (Paperback): Joe Ben The genius secret behaviors - 11 daily habits of geniuses (Paperback)
Joe Ben
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mandala Coloring Book for Adults (Paperback): Shanti Sanyal Mandala Coloring Book for Adults (Paperback)
Shanti Sanyal
R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Old Fashioned Country Girls Favorite Things (Hardcover): Kelly M Jackson An Old Fashioned Country Girls Favorite Things (Hardcover)
Kelly M Jackson
R752 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R226 (30%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Blank Comic Book for Kids - Draw Your Own Comics Designs (Paperback): Aymen Boudefar Blank Comic Book for Kids - Draw Your Own Comics Designs (Paperback)
Aymen Boudefar
R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Repertorium bibliographicum - Or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries (Paperback): William Clarke Repertorium bibliographicum - Or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries (Paperback)
William Clarke
R1,589 Discovery Miles 15 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Taste and Technique in Book-Collecting - A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States (Paperback):... Taste and Technique in Book-Collecting - A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States (Paperback)
John Carter
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Some British Collectors of Music c.1600-1960 (Paperback): A. Hyatt King Some British Collectors of Music c.1600-1960 (Paperback)
A. Hyatt King
R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed. (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Steven Heller, Allison... 20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed. (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Steven Heller, Allison Silver; Edited by Jim Heimann
R807 R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale. Each era's alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the Marlboro Man or Spuds MacKenzie, figures so familiar they could appear in ads without the product itself. Other advertisers devised clever and subliminal approaches to selling their wares, as the wildly successful Absolut campaign confirmed. Even doctors contributed to a perverse version of propaganda, testifying that smoking could calm your nerves and soothe your throat, while hailing liquor as an elixir capable of bringing social success. Whether you savor these visual delights, or enjoy inhaling and wallowing in forbidden pleasures, you will certainly be thrilled by this exploration of a decidedly vibrant-and sometimes controversial-chapter of advertising history. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Hardcover): Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Hardcover)
Arthur Conan Doyle
R461 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R88 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wonder ocean coloring books for adults - Adult Coloring Book (Paperback): Adult Coloring Book Wonder ocean coloring books for adults - Adult Coloring Book (Paperback)
Adult Coloring Book
R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Snapshots and Short Notes - Images and Messages of Early Twentieth-Century Photo Postcards (Hardcover): Kenneth Wilson Snapshots and Short Notes - Images and Messages of Early Twentieth-Century Photo Postcards (Hardcover)
Kenneth Wilson
R1,451 R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Save R193 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Snapshots and Short Notes examines the photographic postcards exchanged during the first half of the twentieth century as illustrated, first-hand accounts of American life. Almost immediately after the introduction of the generic postcard at the turn of the century, innovations in small, accessible cameras added black and white photographs to the cards. The resulting combination of image and text emerged as a communication device tantamount to social media today. Postcard messages and photographs tell the stories of ordinary lives during a time of far-reaching technological, demographic, and social changes: a family's new combine harvester that could cut 40 acres a day; a young woman trying to find work in a man's world; the sight of an airplane in flight. However, postcards also chronicled and shared hardship and tragedy - the glaring reality of homesteading on the High Plains, natural disasters, preparations for war, and the struggles for racial and gender equality. With a meticulous eye for detail, painstaking research, and astute commentary, Wilson surveys more than 160 photographic postcards, reproduced in full color, that provide insights into every aspect of life in a time not far removed from our own.

Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Hardcover, New): Joshua Eckhardt Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Hardcover, New)
Joshua Eckhardt
R3,942 R2,162 Discovery Miles 21 620 Save R1,780 (45%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they have more recently interested historians for their poems on affairs of state, called verse libels. By contrast, this book investigates the relationships that the compilers of miscellanies established between such presumably literary and political texts. It focuses on two of the most popular, and least printable, literary genres that they collected: libels, and anti-courtly love poetry, a literary mode that the collectors of John Donne's poems played a major role in establishing. They made Donne the most popular poet in manuscripts of the period, and they demonstrated a special affinity for his most erotic or obscene poems, such as 'To his Mistress going to bed' and 'The Anagram'.
Donne collectors also exhibited the similarities between these Ovidian love elegies and the sexually explicit or counter-Petrarchan verse of other authors, thereby organizing a literary genre opposed to the conventions of courtly love lyrics. Furthermore, collectors politicized this genre by relating examples of it to libels. In so doing, manuscript verse collectors demonstrated a type of literary and political activity distinct from that of authors, stationers, and readers. Based on a thorough investigation of manuscript verse miscellanies, the book appeals to scholars and students of early modern English literature and history, Donne studies, manuscript studies, and the history of the book.

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium - Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Paperback): Leslie... Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium - Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Paperback)
Leslie Brubaker
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. Its focus is on a deluxe manuscript commissioned around 880, a copy of the fourth-century sermons of the Cappadocian church father Gregory of Nazianzus which presented to the Emperor Basil I, founder of the Macedonian dynasty, by one of the greatest scholars Byzantium ever produced, the patriarch Photios. The manuscript was lavishly decorated with gilded initials, elaborate headpieces and a full-page miniature before each of Gregory's sermons. Forty-six of these, including over 200 distinct scenes, survive. Fewer than half however were directly inspired by the homily that they accompany. Instead most function as commentaries on the ninth-century court and carefully deconstructed both provide us with information not available from preserved written sources and perhaps more important show us how visual images communicate differently from words.

The Anglo-Saxon Library (Paperback): Michael Lapidge The Anglo-Saxon Library (Paperback)
Michael Lapidge
R2,284 Discovery Miles 22 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 provides 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 the books andlearning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.

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