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The commonwealth of books : essays and studies in honour of Ian Willison / edited by Wallace Kirsop with the assistance of Meredith Sherlock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- History.
- Books--History.
- Books.
- Books--Social aspects--History.
- Rare books.
- Rare book librarianship.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 271 pages : portrait, facsimiles ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Melbourne, Vic.] : Centre For The Book, Monash University ; New Castle, DE : Distributed by Oak Knoll Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English; one essay in German with summary in English.
- Contents:
- Ian Willison / David McKitterick
- Bibliography of Ian Roy Willison / Dennis E. Rhodes
- Making books, generating genres / J. Paul Hunter
- The most blasphemous book that was ever publish'd: ridicule, reception, and censorship in eighteenth-century England / Michael F. Suarez
- Two collectors: Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst / Richard Landon
- Biography and textual biography: towards a life of Yeat's text / Warwick Gould
- Impediments to scholarship: printing and publishing at the close of the twentieth century / Peter Davison
- Whither book history in the UK and beyond / Simon Eliot
- The history of print culture in New Zealand: report on recent experience / Keith Maslen
- Bibliography and cultural history / Robin Alston
- A pedigree mongrel: some reflections on the historical development of the South Asian collections of the British Library's oriental & India office collections / Graham Shaw
- The rare book program at Columbia University, 1972-1992 / Terry Belanger
- Archives in a wider world: the culture and politics of archives / Sarah Tyacke
- Kulturwissenschaft: Einige vorläufige Notizen / Bernhard Fabian
- Scholarship, collecting and libraries in the old and new worlds: a personal journey / Wallace Kirsop.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0732640024
- 9780732640026
- OCLC:
- 171131155
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