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The new bibliopolis : French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 / Willa Z. Silverman.
Van Pelt Library Z987.5.F8 S55 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Willa Z., 1959-
- Series:
- Studies in book and print culture
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Book collectors--France--History.
- Book collectors.
- Book collectors--France--Biography.
- Books--France--History--19th century.
- Books.
- Books--France--History--20th century.
- Book collecting--France--History.
- Book collecting.
- Bibliomania--History.
- Bibliomania.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 312 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Title and text in English ; with some text in French.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The New Bibliopolis 3
- 1 Books Worthy of Our Era? Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury Book 21
- 2 Ancients against Moderns: Bibliophilia at the Fin de Siecle 61
- 3 Everything to the Moderns: Independent and Contemporary Bibliophiles 89
- 4 Artist and Amateur in the Creation of Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Books 116
- 5 Unpacking His Library: Robert de Montesquiou and the Aesthetics of the Book 141
- 6 The Enemies of Books? Women and the Bibliophilic Imagination 165
- 7 Conclusion: The End of Books? 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802092113
- 080209211X
- OCLC:
- 154746570
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