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FROM COMPOSITORS TO COLLECTORS: ESSAYS ON BOOK-TRADE HISTORY
Hinks, John and Matthew Day (editors)

- New Castle, Delaware and London : Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2012 - 6 x 9 inches - hardcover, dust jacket - 400 pages - ISBN 9781584563013 ; 9780712358729 (BL) / Order Nr. 105524 - Price: $ 75.00 View Excerpt (PDF) View Table of Contents (PDF) View Slideshow (requires Flash Player 9)

The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the diverse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection over a long period, these essays highlight both continuities and changes in the book trade. Taken together, this collection offers considerable new insights into many facets of the book trade, ranging from creation to consumption. This newest addition to the Print Networks series includes nineteen essays from leading book history scholars, including Mariko Nagase, Daniel Cook, Stephen Brown, Brian Hillyard, Catherine Delafield, Rob Allen, Rachel Bower, Iain Beavan, and more. The "compositors" section covers everything from The Mayor of Quinborough, published in 1661, to My Name is Salma, published in 2007. Essays on "collectors" include Dr. James Fraser, Titus Wheatcroft, Sir Walter Scott, the USA Armed Services, and more. The book is illustrated throughout in black and white.

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MUSCULORUM HUMANI CORPORIS PICTURATA DISSECTIO. by Canano, Ioannes Baptista and Girolamo Da Carpi Text in English, text of facsimile in Latin. First edition. No. IV in the Monumenta Medica series under the general editorship of Henry E. Sigerist. Facsimile edition of the original, published circa 1541 in Ferrara. Includes an introduction by Harvey Cushing, biographical notices of the original authors by Edward C. Streeter. Epilogue listing of all known extant copies. Facsimile illustrated with muscles described in text. Description of the original in Brunet I, 1530. Boards scuffed and rubbed at corners. Endpapers age darkened.