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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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