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A POTENCIE OF LIFE: BOOKS IN SOCIETY.
Barker, Nicolas
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Reprint of the first Edition. This important work is the latest in our series The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. The leading biblio-scholars shed a fascinating light on many aspects of the history of the book. The exceptionally wide range of topics relates to manuscripts as well as the printed book. Essays cover papermaking in America, hand bookbinding, authorship and maritime publishing in 18th-century Britain. Of special interest to the business historian are the discussions of the financing of these operations. It is this process of interdependent exchange that is the central theme to the essays which are based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library.
Essay titles include:
- American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819 by John Bidwell
- Bookbinding and the History of Books by Mirjam M. Foot
- A New Model for the Study of the Book by Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker
- The Codex in the Fifteenth Century: A Manuscript and Print by Lotte Hellinga
- The Trade of Authorship in Eighteenth Century Britain by W.B. Carnochan
- Libraries and the Mind of Man by Nicolas Barker
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> Nitz, Hermann, MATERIALIEN FUR BUCH UND BUCHEINBAND UND IHRE SACHGEMASSE VERARBEITUNG. Fur die Praxis der Buchbindereien, Buchdruckereien und Papierverarbeitung.
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LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D., TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL...
by Boswell, James
First Napier edition, (New editions) with Notes and Appendices by Alexander Napier, plus one volume, unnumbered of Johnsoniana ("Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy...and extracts from the diary of Madame D'Arblay") 'newly collected and edited by Robina Napier' (Pottle 96). Referred to by Pottle as the best edition of the "Life" before Hill's, essentially a revised Croker. Some of Boswell's notes are placed in the appendixes, which also contain valuable discussions of points too lengthy for use as notes. This edition is prefaced by a valuable essay on Johnson's various biographers, and a summary of the work done by different editors on Boswell's text. The "Life" and the "Tour" contain excellent separate indexes. The most important item in Mrs. Napier's "Johnsoniana" is Thomas Campbell's "Diary of a Visit to England in 1775," which was first published at Sydney, Australia, in 1854, but was here printed for the first time in England. Also separately indexed. "Handsomely printed, with many (54) useful and beautiful illustrations." Pages uncut. Covers soiled, some rubbing to extremites, offset to endpapers, waterstains to top edge of frontispiece and title page in volume five.
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