English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts
English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts

Author: Seymour De Ricci

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0521156467

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This 1930 volume provides a historical study of English book and manuscript collectors from 1530 until the time of publication.

Collected Books
Collected Books

Author: Allen Ahearn

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1883060141

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An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).

Technique and Technology
Technique and Technology

Author: Adrian Armstrong

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780198159896

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Literary studies cannot neglect the study of books, the physical objects through which literary texts are transmitted. Book form is especially relevant to the literature of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the crucial shift from manuscript to print in Western Europe.This book examines manuscripts and printed editions of three major French writers of this key period: Jean Molinet, Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jean Bouchet. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. Thedevelopment of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomesdominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.