Form and meaning in the history of the book : selected essays / Nicolas Barker.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Barker, Nicolas.

Contributor:

British Library.

Series:

British Library studies in the history of the book

The British Library studies in the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History.

Books.

History.

Books--Social aspects.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Library, 2003.

Contents:

Books and Texts, Medieval and Later

A Very Famous Line (The Times Literary Supplement, 26 July 1963) 1

Donne's 'Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (The Book Collector, 22 (Winter, 1973), 487-93) 7

The Medieval Book (The Book Collector, 40 (1991), 9-30) 15

In Praise of Manuscripts (The Book Collector, 49 (Autumn, 2000), 329-48) 27

Quiring and the Binder: quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings (Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard, Oxford Bibliographical Society, n.s. XVIII (Oxford, 1975), pp. 11-31) 38

A Register of Writs and the Scales Binder (The Book Collector, 21 (Summer & Autumn, 1972), 227-44, 356-79) 56

Typography and Early Printing

The Invention of Printing: revolution within revolution (Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 35 (1978), 64-91) 102

The St Albans Press: the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder? (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, VII (1979), 257-70) 122

Caxton's Typography (Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 11 (1976/7), 114-43) 144

Caxton's Quincentenary: a retrospect (The Book Collector, 25 (Winter, 1976), 455-80) 173

The Aldine Roman in Paris, 1530-1534 (The Library, 5th series, 29 (1974), 5-20) 186

The House of Enschede and the History of Typefounding in the Netherlands (The Book Collector, 29 (Spring, 1980), 7-21) 215

The Death of the OUP Printing House (The Spectator, 25 February 1989, 34-5) 225

The Future of Typographic Studies (10th Hanes Lecture, 1989, Hanes Foundation (1996)) 229

History of the Book

A Note on the Bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802 (The Library (1963), 40-50) 248

Books and Readers 1475-1640 (The Book Collector, 19 (Winter, 1970), 439-54) 260

Reflections on the History of the Book (The Book Collector, 39 (Spring, 1990), 9-26) 269

The History of the Book from Documents (The Book Collector, 26 (Winter, 1977), 471-94) 279

Foxon

and After? (The Book Collector, 25 (Autumn, 1976), 311-24) 291

Ireland and the Book Trade (The Book Collector, 40 (Summer, 1991), 153-68) 298

'Ireland, Where Booksellers Cannot Pretend to Any Property' (The Book Collector, 50 (Summer, 2001), 165-85) 307

The Rise of the Provincial Book Trade in England and the Growth of a National Transport System (L'Europe et le Livre: Reseaux et Pratiques du Negoce de Librairie, XVIe-XIXe siecles (Lyon, 1994), pp. 137-55) 319

Forgery

A Scandal in America (The Book Collector, 36 (Winter, 1987) & 37 (Spring, 1988), 3-28) 332

A Note on Two Poems ((London, 1983), pp. 3-27) 354

C. S. Lewis, Darkly (Essays in Criticism, XL (1990), 358-67) 364

Starling Burgess, No Type Designer (Printing History (Journal of APHA), 37 (XIX.i, 1998), 6-19) 371

Mismanaging Mother: was William Beckford really a forger? (The Times Literary Supplement, 2 October 1998, 17) 390

Books and People

Seen in a Window (The Warden's Meeting: a Tribute to John Sparrow (Oxford, 1977), pp. 3-6) 393

A Curious Copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century (Fine Books and Book Collecting, ed. by Christopher de Hamel & Richard A. Linenthal (Leamington Spa, 1981), pp. 35-7) 395

The Library Catalogue of Laurence Sterne (The Shandean, 1 (1989), 9-24) 399

William Strahan and Laurence Sterne (Writers, Books, and Trade: an Eighteenth-century English Miscellany for William B. Todd, ed. by O. M. Brack, Jr (New York, 1994)) 413

Antonio Agustin's Letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (Antonio Agustin between Renaissance and Counter-Reform, ed. by M. H. Crawford (London, 1993), pp. 21-9) 421

Bookselling

The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values: an essay in bibliometry (The Book Collector, 9 (Winter, 1960), 414-22) 431

Four Booksellers (The Book Collector, 32 (Autumn, 1983), 263-82) 438

The Kraus Saga (The Book Collector, 32 (Summer, 1983), 135-54) 448

Libraries or who Cares about Old Books?

Sion, Evelyn, and What Next? (The Book Collector, 26 (1977), 319-28) 460

The Rape of the Rylands (The Book Collector, 37 (Summer, 1988)) 466

Libraries and the National Literary Heritage: two views from Europe (The Book Collector, 34 (1985)) 476

The Catalogue and the Card (The Book Collector, 43 (1994), 329-50) 492

The Edible Book (The Book Collector, 26 (Summer, 1977), 167-72) 503.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0712347771

OCLC:

50935804