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Understanding book-collecting

Title
Understanding book-collecting / Grant Uden.
Author
Uden, Grant.
Publication
Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, ©1982.

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Book/TextUse in library Z987 .U33Off-site

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Description
279 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • Book collecting
  • Book Collecting
  • Bibliofilie
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Language of Book-Collecting (i) -- The Language of Book-Collecting (ii) -- 'The Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding -- The Illustrated Book -- Private Press and Press Books -- The Cult of the First Edition -- Association Copies -- Provincial Presses -- Bibles -- Completeness and Condition -- The Care of Books -- Ephemera -- Autograph Letters and Manuscripts -- The Adventure of Collecting -- Sources of Supply -- Appendix I: The Roman Notation -- Appendix II: Old and New Style -- Appendix III: A Shelf of Bookmen -- Appendix IV: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association -- Glossary -- A Questionary or Quodlibet -- Index
ISBN
  • 0907462138
  • 9780907462132
  • 1851490280
  • 9781851490288
LCCN
82226939
OCLC
  • ocm08926386
  • 8926386
  • SCSB-78080
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library