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Order Nr. 95276 THE COMMONWEALTH OF BOOKS: ESSAYS AND STUDIES IN HONOUR OF IAN WILLISON. Wallace...

THE COMMONWEALTH OF BOOKS: ESSAYS AND STUDIES IN HONOUR OF IAN WILLISON.

with the assistance of Meredith Sherlock
(Melbourne). Centre for the Book, Monash University, 2007. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 283 pages. with the assistance of Meredith Sherlock. Ian Willison, whose professional life was spent in the British Museum Library, later the British Library, has played a leading part in the development of book-history studies in the English-speaking world. In the two decades since his retirement from a post that gave him administrative and intellectual oversight of the library's rare-book..... READ MORE

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Preface...............................................................................vii
Camite d'hanneur........................................................................x
DAVID McKITTERICK........Ian Willison...................................................1
DENNIS E. RHODES.........Bibliography of Ian Roy Willison..............................12
J. PAUL HUNTER...........Making Books, Generating Genres...............................18
MICHAEL F. SUAREZ, S.J..."The most Blasphemous Book that ever was Publish'd": 
                         Ridicule, Reception, and Censorship in Eighteenth-
                         Century England...............................................48
RICHARD LANDON...........Two Collectors: Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst.............78
WARWICK GOULD............Biography and Textual Biography: Towards a Life of 
                         Yeats's Text..................................................96
PETER DAVISON............Impediments to Scholarship: Printing and Publishing 
                         at the Close of the Twentieth Century........................120
SIMON ELIOT..............Whither Book History in the UK, and Beyond?..................136
KEITH MASLEN.............The History of Print Culture in New Zealand: Report 
                         on Recent Experience.........................................149
ROBIN ALSTON.............Bibliography and Cultural History............................164
GRAHAM SHAWA.............Pedigree Mongrel: Some Reflections on the Historical 
                         Development of the South Asian Collections of the 
                         British Library's Oriental & India Office Collections........181
TERRY BELANGER...........The Rare Book Program at Columbia University, 1972-1992......197
SARAH TYACKE.............Archives in a Wider World: The Culture and Politics of 
                         Archives.....................................................209
BERNHARD FABIAN..........Kulturwissenschaft: Einige vorlaufige Notizen................227
WALLACE KIRSOP...........Scholarship, Collecting and Libraries in the Old and 
                         New Worlds: A Personal Journey...............................242
List of contributors..................................................................272