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Staikos, Konstantinos THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE ROMAN WORLD - FROM CICERO TO HADRIAN.
II. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2005 8.5 x 11.5 inches. full-leather, slipcase 364 pages.
Deluxe full-leather edition. Limited to 100 copies. This second volume continues Staikos' brilliant history of the library from the early days of the Roman Republic to the "Golden Age" of Imperial Rome and the Emperor Hadrian. Extensively researched and beautifully illustrated with many rare photographs and drawings. Printed in Athens with careful attention to detail. Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece. Sales Rights: Worldwide.

Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 76541

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. THE GREAT LIBRARIES: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2000 9.5 x 13 inches hardcover, dust jacket 600 pages
First edition in English, second impression. This monumental work chronicles the development of the library from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. Beginning with the clay-tablet libraries of the ancient Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian empires, to those inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Mr. Staikos reveals the majesty of Western literature within these great depositories of human knowledge. Using over 400 illustrations [130 in full color] the reader is treated to hundreds of beautifully photographed interiors of these legendary libraries and their rare treasures. Chapter by chapter, the stories of the fabled libraries of Alexandria, Greece and Rome unfold like an unbroken chain, connecting the wisdom of the ancients to the magnificent libraries of the European Renaissance. The author also shares with us the very personal stories of the founders and the un-sung librarians, who struggled during wars and countless disasters to preserve and protect their precious holdings. The chapters on the contributions of the Byzantine and Greek monastic libraries, the foundation of the Western Renaissance, are especially revealing. Mr. Staikos' original scholarship and well-written prose makes a very readable work of surprising originality. He has created a literary masterpiece that captures the rich heritage of one of man's greatest achievements. This is a very special, large-format volume no bibliophile will want to be without. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 58026

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. GREEK LIBRARY: THE KONSTANTINOS SP. STAIKOS BOOK COLLECTION HENCEFORTH THE ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION LIBRARY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 9 x 12.25 inches hardcover 550 pages
Greek Library is a bibliography of the collection of Konstantinos Sp. Staikos acquired by the Library of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. This collection represents the entire spectrum of the intellectual pursuits of the Greeks of the Diaspora, extending over a period from the Early Renaissance until the late years of Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. The books in this collection not only exemplify Greek printing and publishing activities, but they demonstrate the participation of Greeks in international politics and religious matters in the courts of empires such as Russia and Austria.

The collection includes more than 1,200 titles divided into five sections. The first section, Renaissance-Humanism, discusses first editions of Greek literature, grammaires, and Lexikons. The other sections examine Neo-Hellenic literature, liturgies, theology, and the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. Among these sections, poetry, novels, mythistories, gospels, psalters, the Old and New Testament, Works of the Greek Fathers, Dogmatic works, translations of European literature, and specimens of Greek typography in many places are examined.

For each listed book, full bibliographical notes, references in standard bibliographies, provenance, comments, notes, and descriptions by the writer are provided. There are over 700 printers' marks listed, as well as many title pages and portraits of writers, publishers, and editors. A general introduction, introductions for each section, a general index, and an index of printers are also included.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 104816

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE RENAISSANCE - FROM PETRARCH TO MICHELANGELO.
V. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV 2012 8.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover, dust jacket 624 pages
With the publication of Volume V, the last stage in the development of the library is revealed. Like the rest of the books in The History of the Library series, this volume is beautifully designed and fully illustrated in color.

This fifth and final volume of The History of the Library in Western Civilization contains eight chapters giving a comprehensive account of the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the effects of the revival of interest in the Greco-Roman tradition on the European cultural scene, at both the secular and religious level.

The first chapter looks at the early exponents of humanism in Europe and assesses their role in the revival and promotion of classical thinking. It also describes the particular characteristics of the books in the libraries of pioneers of the humanist movement, such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Leonzio Pilato, and the organization of the first bilingual library of the Renaissance by Palla Strozzi in Florence.

With Byzantine scholars leaving Constantinople and settling at first in Italy, bringing their fine collections of books with them, the second chapter describes the 'brain drain' from East to West in the fifteenth century. It discusses the systematic study and diffusion of the Greek language, while including brief historical accounts of three humanistic libraries: those of Novello Malatesta and Cardinal Bessarion, and the Vatican Library. Three more great libraries: those of King Matthias Corvinus, Janus Pannonius, and the Medici family are described in the third chapter, as the part played by the invention of printing in the spread of learning and the formation of libraries is explored.

The fourth chapter describes the character of French humanism and the role of the scholarly circle in Paris that sowed the seeds of humanist learning, and gives the salient facts about its leading members. There is a section on the formation of the French royal library, its contents, and the persons chiefly responsible for its growth, and another dealing with the contribution made by French printers to the spread of humanism and of books in general.

With a long section on Erasmus, the fifth chapter examines his study of scholarly books, his work as an editor, his edition of the New Testament, and the manuscripts that provided him with his material. Erasmus's correspondence with civic and ecclesiastical dignitaries, scholars, and printers around Europe implies the existence of a 'common library' shared by the humanists. Also in the fifth chapter is a discussion of Geneva's position as a publishing centre of books by Reformers and a refuge for those who supported Luther and Calvin's objections to the practices of the Catholic Church.

The next chapter is chiefly concerned with those parts of every library that contained copies of the new Christian literature embodied in the writings of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, new translations of the Bible into the vernacular, and the many books written about religious disputes. It covers the dispersal of the monastic libraries in England and discusses the libraries of men of letters and scholars throughout Europe. Furthermore, in the seventh chapter, insight is given into the nature of the new libraries created in the late sixteenth century, containing contemporary pity works and prose and verse adaptations of medieval classics in booklet form. It concludes with a chronicle of the founding of the Oxford University library by Sir Thomas Bodley.

The final chapter oversees the Renaissance library architecture and the great changes in library design that resulted from the creation of many public libraries and the opening of libraries generally to a wider public. The three-aisled library, designed by Michelozzo, is introduced, and its influence on monastic libraries in Italy, and to the libraries designed by Domenico Fontana, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo, and others is explained.

Sales Rights: Worldwide except Europe; in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF.

Order all five volumes of The History of the library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 76546

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. LIBRARIES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE AND MAJOR HUMANIST AND MONASTERY LIBRARIES (3000 BC - AD 1600).
Athens Frank E. Basil 1997 4to. paper-covered boards. (vi), xiv, 282, (4) pages.
In two parts: 48 entries for tablets, manuscripts and early printed books, generally in Greek, from ancient times to 1500, with an intermittent text discussing the libraries recorded and unrecorded, which may have been or were associated with these items. With illustrations. The second part provides an additional 126 entries, again, predominately for works in Greek, from 12 extant libraries and one no longer extant but well-attested. Each library is described, with photographic or other illustrations. Most are well-known, but two Greek libraries of the Middle Ages and the late Renaissance should be somewhat less familiar.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64289

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Stephenson, Jean and Kit Currie (editors) THE GROLIER CLUB ITER VENETICUM.
New York The Grolier Club 2001 7.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover 124 pages
On Wednesday, October 14, 1998, over seventy members of the Grolier Club left New York to travel to Ravenna and Venice to discover Venice's legacy of books and publishing. While on their trip, they visited celebrated libraries, the deserted island of Torcello, the great Palladian homes of the Veneto, and more. The adventure lasted until October 25, 1998.

The Grolier Club Iter Veneticum provides an itinerary of the trip with detailed descriptions of their journey. Seventeen contributions by participants are included describing historical information on the collections and buildings visited on the tour, personal photographs, and artwork. Various drawings, references, and a list of travelers are also included. The Mosaics of Ravenna, Theodric's Tomb, Palazzo, and Canova are a few of the locations visited.

The book was designed by Scott Vile and printed by the Ascensius Press.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 106637

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Stoddard, Roger E. A LIBRARY-KEEPER'S BUSINESS.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth 498 pages
First edition. Roger Stoddard is a highly respected librarian and author. As Head of Rare Books at Harvard University's famed Houghton Library, he has gained a lifetime of unique experiences. In a series of insightful essays and commentaries, this quiet scholars' scholar shares his work of forty years at one of the great epicenters of power and learning. A beautifully-written memoir, Stoddard's work will be enjoyed by anyone who loves the world of books. One will find his reaction to working with such giants as William A. Jackson and Lawrence C. Worth and a host of other notables. The author shares his insights from the perspective of a young student evolving into one of the foremost librarians in America. Beautifully illustrated with many rare photos, this book should be read by all those who love books and the unique people and institutions that lovingly care for them. Edited by Carol Z. Rothkopf and prefaced by Stephen Weissman. Illustrated.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 65491

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Tanselle, G. Thomas LITERATURE AND ARTIFACTS.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1998) 8vo. cloth. xvii, 355 pages.
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."
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 53838

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Thompson, Neville, Bert Denker, et al THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION.
Winterthur and New Castle DE Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press 2003 8.5 x 11 inches paperback 100 pages
First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images.

With essays and entries about the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections, the book deals with subjects ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th. These five centuries of books, drawings and ephemera represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers and a wealth of other hands through which the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects.

The Winterthur Library Revealed truly uncovers the wealth of the museum's rare books on American furniture and home decorations. Illustrated with over 100 color and black-and-white photographs with essays by museum staff. Co-published with the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107549

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Thompson, Neville, Bert Denker, et al THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION.
Winterthur and New Castle DE Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press 2003 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 100 pages
First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images.

With essays and entries about the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections, the book deals with subjects ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th. These five centuries of books, drawings and ephemera represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers and a wealth of other hands through with the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects.

The Winterthur Library Revealed truly uncovers the wealth of the museum's rare books on American furniture and home decorations. Illustrated with over 100 color and black & white photographs with essays by museum staff. Co-published with the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107551

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Townley, Maureen. THE BEST AND FYNEST LAWERS AND OTHER RAIRE BOOKS.
Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh Bibliographical Society in association with The National Library of Scotland 1990 6 x 9.75 inches stiff paper wrappers. 163 pages.
First edition. The National Library of Scotland is the direct descendant of Edinburgh's historic Advocates' Library, formally opened in 1689. This scholarly facsimile of the 1683 catalogue of the Advocates' Library sheds new light on the early history of one of Scotland's most prestigious institutions and offers a sound basis for further research into its collections.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 55500

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(Ulizio, B. George) Keller, Dean H. and Cara Gilgenbach (Editors) A CATALOGUE OF THE B. GEORGE ULIZIO COLLECTION IN THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.
New Castle and Kent State Oak Knoll Press & Kent State University Libraries 2006 8.5" x 11" hardcover 246 pages
First Edition. A catalogue of the B. George Ulizio Collection of English and American Literature in the Department of Special Collections, Kent State University Library. B. George Ulizio (1889-1969) was a distinguished bibliophile who saw the value of making these great works available to students and scholars. The catalogue contains fifteen hundred entries. Mr. Ulizio chose significant works, which also carried the necessary scholarly relevance to be of interest to serious students and researchers. Co-published with the Kent State University Libraries.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 90196

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Wendorf, Richard. THE LITERATURE OF COLLECTING & OTHER ESSAYS.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and the Boston Athenæum 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 376 pages
First edition. In this new collection of essays, many published here for the first time, the author of the warmly reviewed Scholar-Librarian leads a series of further explorations into the world of books, libraries and the visual arts. In his extended title essay, Richard Wendorf provides a groundbreaking investigation of the relationship between the theoretical texts devoted to collecting and the rich fictional texts that also take collecting as their focus: not just John Fowles's The Collector, but also Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover, Evan Connell's The Connoisseur, Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector, Bruce Chatwin's Utz, and Ian McEwan's early short story "Solid Geometry." Wendorf shows how the critical arguments posed by Benjamin, Baudrillard, Muensterberger and others play out in these modern literary texts and how, in turn, these fictional works complicate the ways in which we think about what it means to be a collector.

Wendorf devotes two chapters to library history: a bicentennial essay on the Boston Athenæum and an investigation of the origins of America's membership libraries in England and its colonies in the eighteenth century. Returning to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, the focus of much of his scholarly work, Wendorf includes four essays, two of which provide fresh assessments of Reynolds's career, while the other two document his relationships within the blue-stocking world of Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale Piozzi and his sister Frances Reynolds. And in a tour de force near the end of this volume ("Deconstructing Athena - and Me"), Wendorf writes about what it is like to serve not just as the scholarly interpreter of portraiture but as the photographic subject of it as well.

Richard Wendorf is the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenæum, which he has helped shepherd through a historic renovation and expansion project as well as its 2007 bicentennial. He was previously the Librarian (director) of Harvards Houghton Library and, before that, Professor of English and Art History at Northwestern University, where he also served as the undergraduate academic dean. His publications include the award-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Harvard) and After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History (Yale). This represents his third book with Oak Knoll Press; its companions are The Scholar-Librarian (2005) and America's Membership Libraries (2007). Co-published with the Boston Athenæum.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96668

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Wertheimer, Andrew B. and Donald G. Davis, Jr LIBRARY HISTORY RESEARCH IN AMERICA, ESSAYS COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBRARY HISTORY ROUND TABLE.
Washington Library of Congress, The Center for the Book 2000 8vo. cloth. vi, 279 pages.
First edition. Foreword by John Y. Cole, followed by 16 separate essays on library history. These include Lee Shiflett on Louis Shores, John David Marshall on the Library History Round Table, Wayne A. Wiegand on library literature produced over the period 1947-1997, and many other interesting essays. Also has an essay entitled "In Memory of Oivind M. Hovde (1911-1986)." This collection was originally published as a special issue of the journal Libraries and Culture, Winter 2000, 35:1.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 60641

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(Winterthur Library) Thompson, Neville, Bert Denker, et al THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION.
Winterthur and New Castle DE Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press 2003 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 112 pages.
First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images.
With essays and entries about the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections, the book deals with subjects ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th. These five centuries of books, drawings and ephemera represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers and a wealth of other hands through which the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects.
The Winterthur Library Revealed truly uncovers the wealth of the museum's rare books on American furniture and home decorations. Illustrated with over 100 color and black-and-white photographs with essays by museum staff. Co-published with the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Price: $ 24.95 other currencies Order nr. 74780

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(Yale College Library) Mooney, James E. (editor) EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CATALOGUES OF THE YALE COLLEGE LIBRARY
(New Haven, CT) Yale University 2001 8to stiff paper wrappers xxi, (224) pages
This book reproduces in facsimile each page of the printed catalogues of the Yale College Library issued in 1743, 1755, and 1791, accompanied by an index that identifies authors and titles and is keyed to these facsimile pages. The introduction tells the story of the early books of this collection from long before there was a Yale College Library in which to place them. It examines the legend of the "Forty Folios" and describes the major early gifts from Jeremiah Dummer, Elihu Yale, George Berkeley, and others that made it possible for the new college to build its collection without spending a cent for books. The use of the books during the 18th century is described and a comparison is made with similar catalogues of Harvard College. There is a list of selected sources used for this introduction as a guide for further study.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 99720

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