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The invention of rare books : private interest and public memory, 1600-1840
- Title
- The invention of rare books : private interest and public memory, 1600-1840 / David McKitterick, University of Cambridge.
- Author
- McKitterick, David
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 450 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the principal means of memory, this process also created particular kinds of remembering. Taking a European perspective, McKitterick looks at these interests as they developed from being matters of largely private concern and curiosity, to the larger public and national responsibilities of the first half of the nineteenth century"--
- Subjects
- Book industries and trade
- Book collecting
- Book collectors
- Libraries
- Book collecting > Europe > History
- Book industries and trade > Europe > History > 19th century
- Book industries and trade > Europe > History > 17th century
- Book industries and trade > Europe > History > 18th century
- Bibliography > Methodology
- Book collectors > Europe > History
- Libraries > Europe > History
- Europe
- Rare books > Expertising
- Rare books > Europe > History
- Rare books > Bibliography > Methodology
- Rare books > Europe > Bibliography > Methodology > History
- History
- 1600-1899
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-438) and index.
- Contents
- Inventio -- Books as objects -- Survival and selection -- Choosing books in Baroque Europe -- External appearances (1) -- External appearances (2) -- Printers and readers -- A seventeenth-century revolution -- Concepts of rarity -- Developing measures of rarity -- Judging appearances by modern standards -- The Harleian sales -- Authority and rarity -- Rarity established -- The French bibliographical revolution -- Books in turmoil -- Bibliophile traditions -- Fresh foundations -- Public faces, public responsibilities.
- Call Number
- JFF 18-2117
- ISBN
- 9781108428323
- 1108428320
- LCCN
- 2018003779
- OCLC
- 1021215196
- Author
- McKitterick, David, author.
- Title
- The invention of rare books : private interest and public memory, 1600-1840 / David McKitterick, University of Cambridge.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-438) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108600453
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-2117