The Arcadian Library: Bindings and Provenance
This volume presents six essays by notable scholars examining fine bindings, provenances, historical associations and technical aspects of the holdings of the Arcadian Library, London. With its precise scholarship, detailed information, original research and lavish illustration, it will be a standard work for bibliophiles and book scholars.
| ISBN: | 9780199654819 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Mandelbrote Giles de Bruijn Willem |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.07.2014 |
| Schlagworte: | ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Paper Ephemera HISTORY / Middle East / General Middle East Middle Eastern history |
Giles Mandelbrote was appointed Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library in 2010, after working for some years at the British Library. Among his publications are Out of Print & Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century (2006), as well as the second volume (1640-1850) of The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (2006), edited jointly with K.A. Manley. More recently he contributed to and edited (with Barry Taylor) Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections (2009). He is an honorary Senior Research Fellow of King's College, London, and one of the convenors of the annual London conference on book trade history. At present his research is mainly concerned with the book trade in early modern Europe and with book ownership and collecting in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. ; Dr John-Paul Ghobrial is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.