Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640
Author: Alfred William Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
A Catalogue of Books Consisting of English Literature and Miscellanea, Including Many Original Editions of Shakespeare
Author: George Watson Cole
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578984756
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578984756
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The English catalogue of books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Index to the English Catalogue of Books ...
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books [annual].
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.