Product Description: The Arcadian Library, based in London, is one of the finest collections of books reflecting European interest in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Among its c.10,000 volumes are many copies with important provenances and fine bindings...read more

Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from individual copies and piecing together the documentary evidence to provide this narrative. In this volume, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. "Books on the Move" represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade.

Product Description: Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays...read more

Product Description: This is the latest book in the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew Books in Sixteenth-Century Italy," Alastair J...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on two specific areas: the men and women who earned a living in the production and distribution of books and serials; and how biographies of a widening range of individuals became one of the staples of the business of publishing...read more

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Product Description: The close relationship between the book trade and the growth of libraries is the focus of this collection of essays. Contributions include Leslie Morris on the complex affiliations between collector, librarian and bookseller, among others. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Collected here as a homage to Robin Myers, these essays uncover the connections between the mechanics of the book trade and their human ends in the learning and transmission of knowledge. PART I: THE BOOK TRADE cover a variety of topics: "A 16th-century stationer and his business connections: the Tottell family documents 1448-1719 at Stationers' Hall," "Manasses Vautrollier in Cambridge," "A binding with the arms of the Stationers' Company," "Book trade patents, 1603-1640," and many more PART II: THE CUSTOMERS include "Magdalen College and the book trade: the provision of books in Oxford: 1450-1550," "The library of Sir Edward Sherburne," "Richard Lapthorne and the London retail book trade, 1683-1697," "The antiquarian satirized: John Clubbe and the Antiquities of Wheatfield," and several more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)