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Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : PRNC:32101071889537
Author : Christie & Manson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Book auctions
ISBN : OXFORD:555093960
Author : P. G. Naiditch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1456805290
In writing this book three questions chiefly interested me. What books and pamphlets did Richard Porson own? From whom did he acquire these materials? What has become of his holdings? Answering the first question was relatively easy. For over two hundred years students have known that, after his death, Porsons library was divided into two unequal parts. The larger portion was sent to auction, the smaller part, together with Porsons papers, was separately sold to Trinity College, Cambridge. To treat the problem I have examined all of the microfilm set of the Sotheby auction catalogues from 1783 to 1808, save when catalogues were not marked or the markings were too faint to decipher: notably Jan. 1, 1785; May 29, 1786; Jan. 22 and May 1, 1797; June 1788; Jan. 13, 1789; May 26, 1791; June 22, 1795; Jan. 1796; 1800; Nov. 14, 1803 through Dec. 3, 1804 (twenty-three catalogues); April 18 and May 29, 1805; April 14-30, May 19, June 5, July 2, 10, 15, 1806...or when the microfilm is imperfect. Likewise, I have seen, in London, most of Christies book catalogues from 1782 to 1808; and, in Los Angeles, much of the Frank Marcham collection at UCLA (coll. 416 boxes 10-34). Finally, I have seen almost all of Porsons books at Trinity and a few other places. From 1786 to 1808, Porson purchased hundreds of books and pamphlets. The records allow us to trace his purchases at forty-seven auctions. Of these, Leigh & Sotheby presented most of the sales. But Porson also bought at sales offered through Edwards, Robson and Clarke, King & Loche, and he at least interested himself in a Stewart sale. In addition, one has to take into account books given to Porson as prizes or gifts; perhaps books entrusted to him for review; and books for which he subscribed. Addressing the second question is complicated by three factors. First, there is the imperfection of the records. The archives of most houses do not sirvive; even the L&S house-files are, on occasion, imperfect or incompletely legible. Secondly, clerks wrote down what they heard. Often enough, they heard Pawson or Pauson, and it was needful to establish identity. Thirdly, there are difficulties in the way of determining specific editions: these range from the existence of multiple editions or impressions to incompleteness of library records and of descriptions of volumes of tracts.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : NYPL:33433089897890
Author : Thomas Grenville,John Thomas Payne,British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library,Henry Foss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : OXFORD:590770352
Author : John Thomas Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z22500300X
Author : Anthony James West
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198187688
This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.
Author : Astor Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080251010
Author : Astor Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080250996
Author : Astor Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510024386079
Author : Astor Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000057529387
Author : Christie's (Londen)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000357675
Author : Howard D. Weinbrot,Peter J. Schakel,Stephen E. Karian
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0299174808
This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, 18th-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women's novels of the 18th century.
Author : Derek Pearsall,Linne R. Mooney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843846130
Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower SocietyFirst comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.The Confessio Amantis is John Gower's major work in English, written around the time that his acquaintance Geoffrey Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Extant manuscripts are numerous. At the end of the nineteenth century G. C. Macaulay had described the forty manuscripts then known to survive in the introduction to his edition, but some of these descriptions were very brief, and of course the other nine of whose existence he was then unaware were not included. This descriptive catalogue of all of the surviving manuscripts containing the Confessio is the first work to bring together extensive detailed descriptions of its forty-nine complete manuscripts and numerous fragments and excerpts; it will enable scholars of Middle English literature and manuscript studies to compare features across the corpus of surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts. for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts.
Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300271485
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”—Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era’s surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of “uterine vellum,” and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources—codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art—that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.
