A handy guide for booksellers and book collectors offering practical advice on how to improve the quality and look of your books and ephemera. Finally a book on book repair for the rest of us. Clear easy to follow directions for repairing books at home or in the shop.... Lees meer.
This edition adds more than 100 new entries and many new illustrations corrects and brings up to date the entries of the work of others and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world which has been fo... Lees meer.
This collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke over the years 1830 to 1834 gives a vivid picture of the insatiable connoisseur in the act of gathering the books and prints that ultimately became part of the library of th... Lees meer.
Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal s Starred Review. This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger s volume as a must-have title for librarians booksellers collectors and students of the book arts and book history. Thi... Lees meer.
Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufactur... Lees meer.
This companion sets out to provide essential information required by those who sell secondhand books and also by those who buy them. There are 450 entries which include explanations of the technical terms used in the description of books. Printing illustration and bind... Lees meer.
