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A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour : a life in rare books / essays by Richard Landon ; with an introduction by Marie Elena Korey.
- Title
- A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour : a life in rare books / essays by Richard Landon ; with an introduction by Marie Elena Korey.
- Author
- Landon, Richard.
- Publication
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Books ; Toronto, Ontario : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | Z1001 .L262 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 440 pages : portrait; 23 cm
- Summary
- "A collection of essays on bibliography, book history, book collecting, and the antiquarian book trade by Richard Landon. Also includes autobiographical essays"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ronald B. McKerrow, An introduction to bibliography for literary students -- 1989 : the director travels -- Franklin on stage -- Twenty-five years on : personal reminiscences -- The Collard bequest -- A personal miscellany -- Subject bibliography : literature in English -- Charles Darwin : some bibliographical problems and textual implications -- Terra Australis incognita : the exile narratives -- Galileo and scientific epistolography in the late Renaissance -- A man under fire : Henry Vizetelly and the question of obscenity in Victorian England -- Literary forgery and mystifications : causes and effects -- The elixir of life : Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and literary London -- Thoreau MacDonald -- From Capell to Tanselle : bibliography and humanities scholarship -- The case of the cabinet connoisseur, or, The concept of special collections -- Embracing the flood : questions about collecting twentieth-century non-literary works -- The two Jameses : Edwards and Lackington and the development of antiquarian bookselling in Great Britain -- The Stillman Drake Galileo Collection -- The antiquarian book trade in Britain 1695-1830 : the use of auction and booksellers' catalogues -- Was William Morris really a pre-Raphaelite? -- The library of King George III -- Two collectors : Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackney -- The Hannah Collection in the history of medicine and related sciences -- Who owned it and why it matters : provenance.
- ISBN
- 9781584563303 (United States)
- 1584563303 (United States)
- 9780772761132 (Canada)
- 0772761132 (Canada)
- LCCN
- ^^2014029596
- OCLC
- 892055598
- SCSB-12654934
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library