Books: Their History, Art, Power, Glory, Infamy and Suffering According to Their Creators, Friends and EnemiesVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 - 128 páginas "What is the origin of the word 'book?' the world's largest book? the most expensive? the symptoms of and treatment for bibliomania? The answers to these and hundreds of other fascinating queries are in 'Books,' George Donaldson's lighthearted and ingenious tour of books and book people through the years. Culled from a dazzling variety of sources, 'Books' leaves no page unturned, from Marc Antony's gift to Cleopatra of 200,000 volumes for the fabled library at Alexandria to the strangest titles of 1980 (how about 'Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery'?), from the most flowery dedication to some startling index entries ('Elections: See Bribery'). You will learn more about the Bible and the English dictionary ('the most interesting book in our language'), about books banned and burned, cherished and preserved. Beautifully illustrated thoughout, 'Books' depicts book treasures and calamities, and the men and women whose lives centered around books. It is full of facts and statistics on bookselling, bookbinding, bookmarks, and bookworms (both kinds). It uncovers forgeries and plagiarisms and examines books as rivals in love and even as agents of destruction." -- Book jacket. |
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... called to the seventy - year- old lady's house by worried neighbors who hadn't seen her for some time . On entering the house they found it filled to overflowing with towers of books from floor to ceiling . The policemen were forced to ...
... called to the seventy - year- old lady's house by worried neighbors who hadn't seen her for some time . On entering the house they found it filled to overflowing with towers of books from floor to ceiling . The policemen were forced to ...
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... called Aul the fervaunte onto the office off an apoftle pult a parte to preache thegos Spell of God which be promp fed afore by bis prophetfirpe boly feriptures that make mes fion ofbie fone the which was begotten of the feede of David ...
... called Aul the fervaunte onto the office off an apoftle pult a parte to preache thegos Spell of God which be promp fed afore by bis prophetfirpe boly feriptures that make mes fion ofbie fone the which was begotten of the feede of David ...
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... called away , and reading till the sun went down behind the willows . She knew nothing of doctrines and systems of mysticism or quietism but this voice out of the far - off middle ages was the direct communication of a human soul's ...
... called away , and reading till the sun went down behind the willows . She knew nothing of doctrines and systems of mysticism or quietism but this voice out of the far - off middle ages was the direct communication of a human soul's ...
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Books: Their History, Art, Power, Glory, Infamy and Suffering According to ... Gerald Donaldson Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |
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ancient Anecdotes Literary antiquity banned Benjamin Bettmann Archive Bible Bibliomaniac binding Book-Song bookbinding BOOKSELLER Bookworm British Library burned burnt called century chapter Charles Charles Lamb circa Cockatoo copy covers dust edition Elliot Stock Enemies of Books England eyes fire Franklin French Gallery hand Handy-Book of Literary heart Henry History human Isaac Disraeli J.D. Salinger John learned leather leaves letters Lionel Lindsay Literary and Scientific Literary Curiosities lived London look Lord manuscripts mind Museum never old book Oliver Goldsmith once paper parchment percent pleasure poet precious printer Prynne published reader Richard de Bury Samuel Samuel Johnson scribble Shakespeare soul thee Thomas Thomas à Kempis Thomas Frognall Dibdin thought thousand treasures turn vellum verse volumes Walsh William Keddie William Prynne words writing written wrote York
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The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair Manual for Book ... Margot Rosenberg,Bern Marcowitz Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |