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The Roxburghe Club : a bicentenary history / Nicolas Barker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections Reading Room Z1008.R887 B351 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Nicolas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roxburghe Club--History.
- Roxburghe Club.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--England--London--History--19th century.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--England--London--History--20th century.
- Bibliomania--Societies, etc--History--19th century.
- Bibliomania.
- History.
- England--London.
- Physical Description:
- 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Roxburghe Club, 2012.
- Contents:
- Origins
- The founder
- The beginning
- First members : the elders
- First members : the new entry
- The first publications
- Early English texts
- A new president & a new editor
- Signs of change
- The development of the facsimile
- The club at the turn of the century
- New members and a new century
- Montague Rhodes James
- Austerity and aftermath
- New books for old
- New winds from America
- The business of publishing
- Into another century.
- Notes:
- Includes list of members.
- "Catalogue of the books presented to and printed by the club, 1812-2012"--P. 303-330.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781901902112
- 1901902110
- OCLC:
- 803529840
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