Author: Willock (London)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Auction catalogue, books of Thomas Day, 22 to 24 June 1793
Author: Willock (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries
Author: Richard W. OramPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442234989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example, the “Legacy Libraries” on Librarything.com). Although there are many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access. This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram’s historical overview of writers’ libraries and institutional collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers’ libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written about them.
Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons: Munby, A.N.L. Poets and men of letters
Author: Alan Noel Latimer MunbyPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Bibliotheca Phillippica
Author: Sir Thomas PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Tracts, and Broadsides, Including the Library of the Late Thomas Brewer ... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... on Monday, June 24th, 1872, Etc
Author: Puttick and SimpsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The Athenaeum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
British Books
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Athenæum
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Auction Catalogue
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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