The book-collector
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The book-collector
（Nico editions : classic works on the history of the book）（Book collecting and bibliomania, Collection 1 . Great British book collectors and their libraries）
Thoemmes , Kinokuniya, 1997
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Reprint. Originally published: London : John Grant, 1904
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This title is part of the "Nico Editions" imprint, which re-publishes works relating to the history of the book. Each series of works provides sub-series of books on specific subject areas, published in groups of six to 12 volumes. Additionally, there are one-off projects of multi-volume works, as well as collections of articles on themed topics extracted from journals and similar sources. Works are selected from all major languages and make available scholarly and rare works on all aspects of the history of the book from the dawn of printing to the 20th century. The "Book Collecting and Bibliomania" series complements that on libraries, relating the history of bibliomania through the ages. Even before the 14th century and the oft-reprinted classic "Philobiblon" by Richard de Bury, book-collecting was a habit to a few who had both education and money. Today, collections range from incunabula and fine bindings to the dust-jackets of modern first editions. This series looks at not only the collecting of books, but also manuscripts, maps, prints, autographs and all paper ephemera. It was Dibdin who gave us the word "bibliomania".
This book offers his personal history of book-collecting through the ages. Bibliographical descriptions are complemented and expanded in "The Library Companion". Merryweather, Burton, Elton, Fletcher and Hazlitt relate their own and other collectors' interest, both in Britain and abroad. Together they form a biographical dictionary of pioneers in the accumulation of culture and learning.
Table of Contents
- "Bibliomania, or Book-Madness - a Bibliographical Romance, Illustrated with Cuts", Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1876, 744pp
- "The Library Compendium - or, the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library", Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1824, 2 vols, 504/440pp
- "Bibliomania in the Middle Ages", Frederick Somner Merryweather, 1900, 344pp
- "The Book Hunter, with a Memoir of the Author", John Hill Burton, 1882, 552pp
- "The Great Book-Collectors", Charles Isaac and Maria Augusta Elton, 1893, 264pp
- "English Book Collectors", William Younger Fletcher, 1902, 496pp
- "The Book-Collector - a General Survey of the Pursuit of those who have Engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, with an Account of Public and Private Libraries and Anecdotes of their Founders or Owners and Remarks on Bookbinding and on Special Copies of Books", William Carew Hazlitt, 1904, 368pp.
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