Author: National Library of Scotland. Lauriston Castle Chap-book Collection
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Chap-books Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Karen Attar
Publisher: Facet Publishing
ISBN: 1783300167
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.

Author: National Library of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Adam Fox
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526137879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.

Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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A Scottish journal of bibliography and allied topics.

Author: Robert Lewis Collison
Publisher: London : Mansell Information Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Monograph comprising a directory of library catalogues published in the english-speaking world from the 18th century to the present time - includes a description to (1) available catalogues by subject area and (2) a key to the catalogues. Bibliography pp. 171 and 172.

Author: Bonnie R. Nelson
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814776
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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