David McKitterick (University of Cambridge)

Readers in a Revolution

Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values that underpins bibliography, access and collecting today. This study illuminates how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 254mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 988g
• ISBN-13: 9781009200844
• ISBN-10: 1009200844
• Artikelnr.: 63266406

Autorenporträt

David McKitterick is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography at the University of Cambridge. He is the general editor of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume VI: 1830-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His most recent monograph, based on the Panizzi lectures delivered at the British Library, is The Invention of Rare Books (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Re-shaping the world
3. Books in abundance
4. Celebrating print: Libraries
5. Access: National Collections
6. The British Museum Commission, 1847-50
7. Libraries in confusion
8. Collaboration: Trading and Collecting
9. The trade in second-hand books
10. Private collectors and the public: Books in Detail
11. Writing in books
12. Bookbinding: Books on Show
13. Reproduction
14. Exhibitions: Another Generation
15. Changes in direction
16. Advice and guidance
17. Standing back
18. The next generation
Conclusion
19. Then and now.