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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Berkeley, California: The CODEX Foundation and Stanford University Libraries, 2022. 12.4 x 9.6 x 1.38 inches. hardcover. 392 pages. Published by the Stanford Libraries and the CODEX Foundation in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Materialia Lumina - Contemporary Artists' Books from the CODEX International Book Fair . Materialia Lumina has extensive full color images and essays by Martin Antonetti, Betty Bright, John A. Buchtel, Paul van Capelleveen, Gerald Cloud, Mark Dimunation, Jan & Crispin Elsted.....

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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. William Butts calls Books in My Life "a book from a leading collector, bibliographer and textual critic that you want to savor like a fine cappuccino, to mull over like a Henry James novel, to contemplate up close like a Vermeer painting." In vol. 74, no. 4 of the journal Manuscripts. "G. Thomas Tanselle is.....

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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 2021. 12.375 x 9 inches. light gray Japanese cloth with front covers stamped in gold, with illustrated endpapers. 2 vol.: [xiii], 622, [2]; [6], 623-1252, [2]. The Comprehensive Index volumes cover all 20,082 descriptive entries published in the previous six volumes, all well illustrated: Twentieth Century (2 vol.: 12,403 entries, v.1 issued in 2000 and v.2 issued in 2003), Nineteenth Century (2 vol.: 6,370 entries, issued in 2019) and.....

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 8.26 x 11 inches (21x28 cm). hardcover. 568 pages. The Mouseion and the Library of the Ptolemies in Alexandria, which comprises 14 chapters in all, begins by taking a look at the relations between the Greeks and the peoples of the East, mainly the Egyptians and the Persians, until the end of the classical period. Next, Alexander the Great's campaign of conquest to the East is summarized and.....

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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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