Format:
xii, 134 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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30 cm
ISBN:
9780997965919
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0997965916
Content:
Foreword / Winston Tabb -- Introduction: portraiture and the public research library / Earle Havens -- Old worlds, new worlds: public research libraries and cultural renewal from the Renaissance to America / Christopher Geekie -- Bibliomanias: book collecting and libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and Baltimore / Neil Weijer and Earle Havens -- Bibliomania: 150 years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library / Earle Havens
Note:
"Printed in an edition of 500 by Penmor Lithographers. The first 150 copies are uniquely numbered in manuscript for presentation on September 21, 2017 to visiting members of the International Congress of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie in Baltimore, hosted by Dean Winston Tabb of the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University." (Seite [137])
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Literaturangaben in Endnoten
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Geleitwort: Winston Tabb. - Autoren der Beiträge: Earle Havens, Christopher Geekie, Neil Weijer
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Sheridan Libraries
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Rara
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Geschichte
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Peabody, George 1795-1869
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Sammlung
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George Peabody Library
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Geschichte
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Festschrift
Author information:
Havens, Earle 1971-
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