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LITERATURE AND ARTIFACTS.
Tanselle, G. Thomas

- Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1998) - 8vo. - cloth. - xvii, 355 pages. - ISBN 1883631068 / Order Nr. 53838 - Price: $ 60.00 View Table of Contents

First edition. Fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects (primarily manuscripts and printed books) that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography," "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute," and "Printing History and Other History."

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PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS REL... First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 146). Contains abridgments of patents granted between 1867 to 1876, a short preface by H. Reader Lack about the change in technology, an index of names and descriptions of the patents. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.