Books on the move : tracking copies through collections and the book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
Published / Created:
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; 2007.London : British Library, 2007.
Physical Description:
xv, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The present volume is the twenty-seventh in the series of proceedings of the annual conference on book trade history, which started in 1979. This conference was held at Wesley's Chapel in City Road on 1 and 2 December 2006, under the auspices of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association ..."--Introd.
Contents:
Lost : the destruction, dispersal, and rediscovery of manuscripts / Peter Beal -- What can we learn by tracking multiple copies of books? / David Pearson -- The creation and dispersal of the library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli / Angela Nuovo -- Books from the library of Andrea Dudith (1533-89) in the library of Isaac Vossius (1618-89) / Astrid Balsern -- From Venice and Naples to Paris, The Hague, London, Oxford, Berlin-- : the odyssey of the manuscript collection of Gerard and Johan Meerman / Jos van Heel -- Pathways to survival of books of hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century / Cristina Dondi -- Bibliophily and public-private partnership : the library of Gustave van Havre (1817-92) and its afterlife in Antwerp libraries / Pierre Delsaerdt.
Subject Terms:
Books -- Provenance -- Congresses. | Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- Congresses. | Book collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses. | Private libraries -- Europe -- History -- Congresses. | Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.