A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour

a life in rare books

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Richard Landon
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"A collection of essays on bibliography, book history, book collecting, and the antiquarian book trade by Richard Landon. Also includes autobiographical essays"--

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English
Pages
440

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A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour: a life in rare books
2014, Oak Knoll Books, The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New Castle, Delaware, Toronto, Ontario

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
010/.44
Library of Congress
Z1001 .L262 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
440 pages
Number of pages
440

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31035625M
ISBN 13
9781584563303, 9780772761132
LCCN
2014029596
OCLC/WorldCat
890957110, 892055598

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