Format:
xii, 450 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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25 cm
ISBN:
9781108428323
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9781108449335
Content:
"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"--
Content:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Inventio; 2. Books as objects; 3. Survival and selection; 4. Choosing books in Baroque Europe; 5. External appearances (1); 6. External appearances (2); 7. Printers and readers; 8. A seventeenth-century revolution; 9. Concepts of rarity; 10. Developing measures of rarity; 11. Judging appearances by modern standards; 12. The Harleian sales; 13. Authority and rarity; 14. Rarity established; 15. The French bibliographical revolution; 16. Books in turmoil; 17. Bibliophile traditions; 18. Fresh foundations; 19. Public faces, public responsibilities; 20. Conclusion
Note:
Bibliographie: Seite 391-438
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Nachdruck: Reprinted 2018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108600453
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe McKitterick, David The invention of rare books Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108584265
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Europa
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Rara
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Buchhandel
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Bibliophilie
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Geschichte 1600-1840
Author information:
McKitterick, David 1948-
