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The Dictionary of the Book

Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151332
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of the Book written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.

The Bibliophile's Dictionary

Author : Peter Miles Westley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Bibliophile's Dictionary written by Peter Miles Westley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliophile's Dictionary

Author : Miles Westley
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582973562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Bibliophile's Dictionary written by Miles Westley and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book Lover's Dictionary of Masterful Words and Phrases &break;&break;How would you feel if someone called you temerarious? What about ? &break;&break;Puerile? &break;Gormless? &break;Pusillanimous? &break;Irenic? &break;Sesquipedalian? &break;Munificent? &break;Insouciant? &break;Lachrymose? &break;Obdurate? &break;Sedulous? &break;Captious? &break;Irascible? &break;Obstreperous? &break;Truculent? &break;Ineluctable? &break;&break;Now you can easily find out what each of these words mean, and see examples of how they've been used by famous and infamous authors. &break;&break;The Bibliophile's Dictionary is an exceptional collection of unusual words and phrases, usefully organized into specific categories such as personality traits, religion, myths, and mysticism, and household objects. Each word has a definition, a phonetic pronunciation, and an example of how the word is used in literature. &break;&break;Enhance your own vocabulary by learning from the great minds of writers.

The Dictionary of Difficult Words

Author : Jane Solomon
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1786038102
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Jane Solomon and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

Lost for Words

Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300106992
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Lost for Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.

Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

Author : Opritsa D. Popa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110201909
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves written by Opritsa D. Popa and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids.

The Whole World in a Book

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190913207
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Whole World in a Book written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century. Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster for American, Grimm for German, Littré for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in spaces whose literary languages already had long philological and lexicographic traditions-Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin-the burgeoning imperialisms and nationalisms of the nineteenth century generated new dictionaries. The Whole World in a Book explores a period in which globalization, industrialization, and social mobility were changing language in unimaginable ways. Newly automated technologies and systems of communication expanded the international reach of dictionaries, while rising literacy rates, book consumption, and advertising led to their unprecedented popularization. Dictionaries in the nineteenth century became more than dictionaries: they were battlefields between prestige languages and lower-status dialects; national icons celebrating the language and literature of the nation-state; and sites of innovative authorship where middle and lower classes, volunteers, women, colonial subjects, the deaf, and missionaries joined the ranks of educated white men in defining how people communicated and understood the world around them. In this volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars investigate these lexicographers asking how the world within which they lived supported their projects? What did language itself mean for them? What goals did they try to accomplish in their dictionaries?

Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division

Author : New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
Publisher : Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1971 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bibliographic History of the Book

Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810830097
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Bibliographic History of the Book written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...skillfully compiled...should be useful to anyone interested in placing his or her studies in the context of printed and bound literature..." --ENGLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION 1880-1920

The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary

Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394910093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful pictures and sentences explain word meanings.

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians

Author : Robert Richmond Ellis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487542380
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians written by Robert Richmond Ellis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "bibliophilia" indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as the social and economic conditions of book production. Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians analyses Spanish bibliophiles who catalogue, organize, and archive books, as well as the publishers, artists, and writers who create them. Robert Richmond Ellis examines how books are represented in modern Spanish writing and how Spanish bibliophiles reflect on the role of books in their lives and in the histories and cultures of modern Spain. Through the combined approaches of literary studies, book history, and the book arts, Ellis argues that two strains of Spanish bibliophilia coalesce in the modern period: one that envisions books as a means of achieving personal fulfilment, and another that engages with politics and uses books to affirm linguistic, cultural, and regional and national identities.

A Book of Book Reviews

Author : Walton Hale Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Book Reviews written by Walton Hale Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Talk

Author : Robert H. Jackson (jurist)
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN 13 : 9781584561880
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Book Talk written by Robert H. Jackson (jurist) and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and valuable insight into the fast-changing worlds of the bibliophile." -John Lewis

Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period

Author : Linda L. Stein
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810861410
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period written by Linda L. Stein and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period: Strategies and Sources will help those interested in researching this era. Authors Linda L. Stein and Peter J. Lehu emphasize research methodology and outline the best practices for the research process, paying attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting studies of national literature.

Bound to Last

Author : Sean Manning
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030681921X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Bound to Last written by Sean Manning and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Author : John Koenig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501153668
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows written by John Koenig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.