The pleasures of bibliophily : fifty years of The book collector : an anthology.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

British Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book collectors.

Book collecting--History.

Book collecting.

Bibliomania--History.

Bibliomania.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

The book collector.

Place of Publication:

London : British Library ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 2003.

Contents:

The Book Collector: Thoughts on Scoring a Century (Winter 1999) / N. J. Barker 1

The Location of Copies of the First Editions of Giordano Bruno (Summer 1956) / John Hayward 8

First Editions of Giordano Bruno: Location of Additional Copies (Autumn 1956) / John Hayward 13

Reflections on Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732) (Spring 1957) / James M. Osborn 15

Philip Hofer (Summer, Autumn 1960) / William A. Jackson 25

John Meade Falkner, 1858-1932 (Autumn 1960) / Graham Pollard 42

John Roland Abbey (Spring 1961) / A. R. A. Hobson, A. N. L. Munby 48

An Old Boot at Cambridge (Autumn 1961) / J. C. T. Oates 58

John Cleland and the Publication of the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Winter 1963) / David Foxon 66

Henry George Quin, 1760-1805 (Winter 1964) / Arthur Rau 79

Imago Mundi (Spring 1966) / Walter Oakeshott 91

The Iniquity of Oblivion Foil'd (Autumn 1966) / John Carter 100

Collecting Modern Imprints (Summer 1970) / G. Thomas Tanselle 107

Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842 (Winter 1976) / Alan Bell 118

Harry Widener's Last Books: Corrigenda to A. E. Newton (Summer 1977) / Arthur Freeman 127

Solomon Pottesman (Winter 1979) / Alan G. Thomas 137

'To the Nightingale': Perhaps an unrecognized poem by William Blake (Autumn 1981) / Geoffrey Keynes, Kt. 144

'Munby Ltd' (Winter 1982) / Harold Forster 153

Recollections of Moving a Library, or, How the Phillipps Collection was brought to London (Autumn 1986) / Philip Robinson 159

The Young Geoffrey Keynes (Winter 1987) / David McKitterick 168

Martin Bodmer Remembered: An Essay in Autobiography Addressed to the Friends of the Bodmeriana on 13 October, 1986 (Spring 1988) / B. H. Breslauer 187

'I Collect and I Preserve': Richard Rawlinson, 1690-1755, and Eighteenth-Century Book Collecting (Spring 1990) / B. J. Enright 205

John Cosin (1595-1672) as a Library Maker (Autumn 1991) / A. I. Doyle 224

Chester Beatty and the Phillipps Manuscripts (Autumn 1991) / Christopher de Hamel 240

A Study in Bibliomania: Charles Henry Hartshorne and Richard Heber (Spring, Summer 1993) / Arnold Hunt 250

'My Books are the Great Joy of My Life': Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-Century Bibliophile (Autumn 1997) / Peter Beal 284

A Hilton Manuscript Once in the Possession of Luttrell Wynne (Quaritch Number 1997) / Toshiyuki Takamiya 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0712347798 :

1584560975

OCLC:

51483109