New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. The founding, growth, organization, and expansion of a major American university library is revealed over three and a half centuries of its history. First edition. The disparate stories of the libraries of the fledgling colleges in the colonies of the Eastern Seaboard, beginning more than one hundred fifty years before the Declaration of Independence, has been recorded occasionally in.....

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. Featured in The New York Times, alongside an interview with author Reid Byers, in the article "How Many Books Does It Take to Make a Place Feel Like Home?" "... a profusely illustrated, detail-crammed, Latin-strewn and yet remarkably unstuffy book ... goes to the heart of why physical books continue to.....

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 224 pages. Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images. When one sees a book covered in a particular paper, the question often arises: Who made that paper? This book helps us recognize certain kinds of marbled-paper decoration created by Edward Webster Morris (1842-1919), an Oxford printer. Morris was adept at the art of marbling, and, as Isaac shows, his.....

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2023. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. cloth. 255 pages. Select papers of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation. This publication features select papers presented at the 4th International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, entitled 'Textualising the Experience - Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th c.)', held in collaboration with the University of Cyprus (Nicosia, 2019). The volume consists of 15 essays in three parts ('Zefyros'.....

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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2021. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xiii, 367 pages. "Books in My Life combines autobiography with fascinating observations about the many roles that books can play in ones personal and professional lives. In particular, his brief memoir detailing the specific volumes, works of art, and other artifacts that one can peruse in his living room is likely one of the most charming and thought-provoking.....

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Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2021. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, Letterpress printed wrapper. 120 pages. This issue features: - An Interview With In Cahoots Director Macy Chadwick. - Mastery and Making: craft in support of concept the third stream, with essays by Veronika Schäpers, Russell Maret, Tobias Lange, and Didier Mutel [Transcripts from the talks at the CODEX Effect Symposium panel] - Excavation, Metamorphosis, and Eternity: Artists as Global Ambassadors of the Book.....

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