Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810354012
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0810354012
Series Statement:
Gale Literature Resource Center
Content:
Maj. J. R. Abbey (1894-1969) - Chester Beatty (1875-1968) - Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) - John Carter (1905-1975) - R.W. Chapman (1881-1960) - Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) - Norman Colbeck (1903-1987) - Seymour de Ricci (1881-1942) - Arundell Esdaile (1880-1956) - Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - Sir Frank Frances (1901-1988) - Sir Israel Gollancz (1864-1930) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) - W.W. Greg (1875-1959) - John Hayward (1905-1965) - C.H. St. John Hornby (1867-1946) - M.R. James (1862-1936) - N.R. Ker (1908-1982) - Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) - Robert Latham (1912-1995) -George Lazarus (1904-1997) - R.B. McKerrow (1872-1940) - Stanley Morison (1889-1967) - Percy Muir (1894-1979) - A.N.L. Munby (1913-1974) - Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983) - P.S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955) - C.B. Oldman (1894-1969) - Alfred W. Pollard (1859-1944) - Graham Pollard (1903-1976) - Bertram Rota (1903-1966) - Victor Scholderer (1880-1971) - Alice Walker (1900-1982) - F.P. Wilson (1889-1963) - John Dover Wilson (1881-1969).
Content:
Essays on British book collectors and bibliographers, a socially and economically diverse lot united by their love of books. Discusses the reversal in roles of booksellers to auctioneers, the movement away from descriptive or factual elements of the book trade to concern with the commercial aspects of the business, and promoting the special merits of a book or manuscript in order to sell it
Note:
Original 393 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale Literature Resource Center
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