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Author : Nicolas Barker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses written by Nicolas Barker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248687
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Country House Library written by Mark Purcell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits. For those who love books and the libraries in which they are collected and stored, The Country House Library is an essential volume to own.
Author : Nicholas Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578983827
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses written by Nicholas Barker and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raphaële Mouren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110301504
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Ambassadors of the Book written by Raphaële Mouren and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What competences are needed for heritage librarians, and how can they be taught? The management of heritage collections requires a unique mix of knowledge and skills, including expertise in preservation and conservation; heritage policies; acquisitions and collection management; bibliographic description; the materiality of books and other collection objects; and the history of libraries. Librarians must also understand the need for open access, the importance of marketing, and the challenges posed by digitization.
Author : Karen Attar
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783300167
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Gross
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004406980
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Catalogs: A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica written by William Gross and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of Catalogs provides a comprehensive index of nearly 2,300 publications documenting the exhibition of Judaica over the past 140 years. This vast corpus of material, ranging from simple leaflets to scholarly catalogs, contains textual and visual material as yet unmined for the study of Jewish art, religion, culture and history. Through highly-detailed, fully-indexed catalog entries, William Gross, Orly Tzion and Falk Wiesemann elucidate some 2,000 subjects, geographical locations and Judaica objects (ceremonial objects, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, synagogues, cemeteries et al.) addressed in these catalogs. Descriptions of the catalog's bibliographic components, contributors, exhibition history, and contents, all accessible through the volume's five indices, render this volume an unparalleled new resource for the study of Jewish Art, culture and history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Book Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.L. Meakin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541692
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury written by H.L. Meakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) was the granddaughter and niece of two of England's Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon. Lady Anne was also the friend and patroness of John Donne and Joseph Hall; however, she deserves to be remembered in her own right. Within her massive country house, Lady Anne created a tiny painted room that she seems to have used as a kind of three-dimensional book. The walls consisted of panels of pictures and mottoes, grouped under Latin sentences. These panels can still be viewed in a Suffolk museum: Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Some panels point to classical and Biblical sources, and to popular emblem books. The sources of other panels are more recondite, while still others are original compositions by Lady Anne. The panels exhibit a contemptus mundi theme and reflect a struggle with ambition, pride, and even despair. Some panels also appear to register carefully veiled but pointed critiques of political and religious events and figures. Lady Anne's painted closet or 'architext' is thus relevant to a wide range of early modern scholarship in various disciplines but is as yet largely unappreciated. For the first time in four hundred years, this book fully describes the closet and places it in its personal, social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts. It argues for the painted closet's importance for understanding early modern conceptualizations of private and public spaces, and for illuminating fundamental early modern habits of seeing and reading (especially combinations of text and image). Finally, this book explores the closet as an example of the ingenious ways in which female subjectivity found ways to express itself even within the constraints of early modern patriarchal society in England.
Author : Andrea M. Gáldy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834769
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Women Patrons and Collectors written by Andrea M. Gáldy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved. As the present volume shows, women—particularly aristocratic women—not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role. Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life. This third volume in the Collecting & Display series of conference proceedings challenges such perceptions through the detailed analysis of different types of collecting by women from the early modern period onwards; it thus seeks to give a voice to a group of important female collectors from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century whose importance for the history of collecting has not yet, or not sufficiently, been acknowledged.
Author : J.H. Bowman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351954555
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book British Librarianship and Information Work 1991–2000 written by J.H. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference volume covers developments in almost every aspect of British library and information work during the ten-year period 1991-2000. Some forty contributors, all of whom are experts in their subject, provide a robust overview of their specialities along with extensive further references which act as a starting point for further research. The book provides a comprehensive record of what took place in library and information management during a decade of considerable change and challenges. It is an essential reference resource for librarians and information professionals.
Author : Dwight Young
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Saving America's Treasures written by Dwight Young and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases some of America's priceless historical artifacts, documents, and sites that, because of neglect, age, or lack of funding, are in danger of being lost forever.
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Book Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009200844
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Readers in a Revolution written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.
Author : Bibliographical Society of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America written by Bibliographical Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375706399
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Book on the Bookshelf written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
Author : David Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192642723
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Book Ownership in Stuart England written by David Pearson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners from diverse backgrounds. It considers questions of evolution, contents and size, and motives for book ownership, during a century when growing markets for both new and second-hand books meant that books would be found, in varying numbers, in the homes of all kinds of people from the humble to the wealthy. Book ownership by women, and by non-professional households, is explicitly explored. Other topics include the balance of motivation between books for use, or for display; the relationship between libraries and museums; and cultures of collecting. While presenting a wealth of information in this field, conveniently brought together, this volume also advances methodologies for book history, and makes extensive use of material evidence such as bookbindings. It challenges received wisdom around priorities for studying private libraries, and the terminology which is appropriate to use. In addition, the list of owners, detailed in the Appendix, make this book a work of permanent reference, alongside its value in advancing book history.
Author : Department of Information & Collections
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402038181
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries written by Department of Information & Collections and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.
