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Books and book-collectors.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carter, John, 1905-1975
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, Hart-Davis, 1956.
Subjects:
Book collecting.
Book collectors.
Book Collecting
Bibliophilie.
Bibliophiles.
Sammler
Buch
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Seven book-collectors: Thomas J. Wise
  • Two Beckford collections
  • Carroll A. Wilson
  • Michael Sadleir
  • Wilmarth S. Lewis
  • Lord Rothschild
  • 2. Two typographers: D.B. Updike
  • Stanley Morison
  • 3. Five essays in bibliophily: Collecting detective fiction
  • Off-subject books
  • Collecting A.E. Housman
  • Bentley three-deckers
  • Fashions in book-collecting
  • 4. Two footnotes to an enquiry: Thomas J. Wise and his forgeries
  • Thomas J. Wise and H. Buxton Forman
  • 5. One bibliographical sermon: Nineteenth-century English books: some bibliographical agenda
  • 6. Two frivolities: Operation Shuckburgh
  • Abc for book-collectors.