These days, libraries are much more than havens for bibliophiles and scholars.
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I wonder how many writers are also bibliophiles, because I'm certainly not.
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Bibliophiles around them leafed through a lovingly curated collection of fiction, poetry, essays and rarities.
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Some pilgrims are bibliophiles keen to immerse themselves in one of Europe's most ornate bookshops.
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Bibliophiles enjoying a staycation may relate to "The Bookish Life of Nina Hill" by Abbi Waxman.
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Trending There is a rising interest around the world in events that connect authors with bibliophiles.
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A Book of the Month subscription for bibliophiles who like to hold books in their hands
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Don't they just get to sit around reading all day, and sometimes enjoying enlightened conversations with fellow bibliophiles?
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The Grolier Club, the nation's oldest society of bibliophiles, just celebrated the centennial of its grand Manhattan home.
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Bibliophiles shouldn't blanch: Many of these books were deteriorating discards that have gotten new happy endings as art.
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Bibliophiles know that sitting back with a book can transport you to another world in a matter of seconds.
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Well, here's some good news for those hungry bibliophiles: you don't need superpowers in order to read more books.
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True bibliophiles can head down the block to Dom Knigi, one of the most famous bookshops in the city.
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As professional bibliophiles, we&aposve curated a list that will delight any literary-buff with an adoration for words.
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At that price, this series will be destined for the shelves of serious bibliophiles, collectors, and Game of Thrones fans.
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Haslam's Book Store is more than just Florida's biggest bookstore, it's a spiritual center for bibliophiles from near and far.
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On Twitter, some bibliophiles expressed shock and horror, while others reacted to that shock and horror with snark and bemusement.
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About 950 books from her collection are currently on display at the Grolier Club, the nation's oldest society of bibliophiles, in Manhattan.
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He called his version Hungry Dutch: de Walpergen was Dutch, and the font was originally intended for a book called "Hungry Bibliophiles".
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A glimmer of a shadow of a possibility that Google Play will soon be offering audiobooks has the bibliophiles of the internet buzzing.
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A Twitter user's picture of a library's ingenious solution to forgetful bibliophiles has gone viral, with over 22018,2200 retweets at time of writing.
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Unlike great robber-baron bibliophiles such John Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, today's super-wealthy prefer to build art collections rather than libraries.
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It was served to 70 boldface types — Francophiles, Anglophiles, bibliophiles and, the organizers hoped, philanthropists who would donate to the cause being promoted.
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She ends up at Scroll, a company whose mission is "to reinvent reading the way Starbucks reinvented coffee" by creating lounges for bibliophiles.
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"The ultimate gift for Harry Potter fans, curious minds, big imaginations, bibliophiles and readers around the world," the website said of the books.
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The place should find avid fans among solitary bibliophiles, cocooning couples, design-magazine devotees and former publishing barons nostalgic for the heyday of print.
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But soon, the bibliophiles, librarians and book dealers are told to evacuate because the winds are changing direction, making the blaze's path increasingly unpredictable.
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The Grolier is one the nation's oldest society of bibliophiles, and it maintains a fine research library and exquisite exhibition space in its midtown digs.
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Over the years, the #bookstagram community — comprised of proud readers, book stores, libraries, publishing houses, and more — has become an online safe haven for bibliophiles.
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The Phillipps legend is the kind of lore bibliophiles savor, and which Mr. Holzenberg was eager to share during a recent tour of the Grolier.
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But gray clouds and a little rain did not stop bibliophiles and residents of the Bronx from attending the inaugural Bronx Book Festival in Fordham Plaza.
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The pairings were assembled by Aaron Hicklin, a magazine editor and founder of One Grand Books, a boutique bookstore that showcases the reading lists of celebrity bibliophiles.
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BOOKS TERRITORY For bibliophiles with plenty of time to browse, Richmond's Chop Suey Books offers a feast of "gently used" books packed into its two-floor store.
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Bibliophiles will be at home at this bookshop, which, with an inventory of 75,000 secondhand and rare tomes, is considered among the largest in the Nordic world.
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While die-hard bibliophiles know there's nothing like the real thing, lovers of information and environmental conservation can appreciate the tremendous wealth being offered by these institutions and others.
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Interestingly, the $25 minimum is still in effect for books, which is good news for bibliophiles (and maybe a good nudge to the rest of us to start reading more).
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Looking down at academics, students and bibliophiles probably isn't enough to stop vertigo, but for a few short seconds, it's worth peering over the parapet into the vast space below.
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I was going to sign my books at the Friday book market of al-Farahidi Street, a weekly gathering for bibliophiles modeled after the famous Mutanabbi Street book market in Baghdad.
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They could be any books — which is sweetly democratic in a way, but also oddly anti-intellectual for supposed bibliophiles, who are presumed to bicker passionately over merits of particular genres and titles.
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If I want to read about books on specific subjects I have plenty of sources from which to choose, but only a publication like the Book Review offers the varied coverage we bibliophiles crave.
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Left-handed bibliophiles might be concerned about a new back bump that seems designed for all the righties like in the picture above, but you can actually flip the Oasis and grip from either hand.
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Two decades later, he connected with W. Ronald Schuchard, now a professor emeritus of literature at Emory, who had heard about Mr. Danowski's acquisitiveness from acquaintances at the Grolier Club for bibliophiles in New York.
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To assist bibliophiles in getting around, Metro Boston Bookstore Day organizers arranged a trolley ride for this year's crawl with two routes each visiting seven bookstores; the 70 available $19993 tickets sold out in under a month.
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Aesthetes and bibliophiles can chase their pleasures until midnight in exhibition halls brimming with contemporary art exhibitions (admission, 12 euros) and a bookstore packed with tomes and magazines devoted to art, design, architecture, fashion and much besides.
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There have been instances in which the rare-book community has been powerless to recover books: when they are taken by bibliophiles with no intention of reselling, said James Cummins, the proprietor of James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan.
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When: Thursday, February 143–Sunday, February 14 Where: The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) (152 North Central Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles) Bibliophiles rejoice: the fourth edition of Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair is here!
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"We're celebrating human curation over algorithmic rhythms," said Mr. Silva, who was spurred to open his shop after experiencing a common affliction for London's bibliophiles — the repetitive, grating ring tones of smartphones disrupting the tranquillity of his bookshop experience.
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"In times when poisonous narratives have become popular and the spreading of fear and hatred have once again become socially acceptable, we liberal, democratically minded bibliophiles must respond with attractive counterarguments," Mr. Boos said at a news conference at the fair's opening.
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On top of buying a book (the shop is well-known for autographed hardbacks and first editions bound in leather with decorative William Morris endpapers), bibliophiles can sign on for Hatchards's monthly subscription service which can be delivered anywhere in the world.
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I make my way up an enclosed spiral staircase to the second level and run my fingers across the leather bindings of hundreds of tomes whose yellow pages had no doubt been leafed through by numerous scholars and bibliophiles over the years.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Printed Matter's fifth annual LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) descended on the MOCA Geffen last weekend, bringing a staggering 300 publishers, galleries, artists, and booksellers to a consistently packed house of bibliophiles (15,000 people attended on Saturday alone).
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But as you might imagine, as professional critics and general bibliophiles they read far more than is represented on those lists — books their colleagues reviewed, books they found by chance, books that had been teetering on their to-read piles while they attended to the demands of their jobs.
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"His collecting was an expression of inner necessity," said Ms. Christov-Bakargiev, moving on to the music room and pointing to an early 16th-century painting by Dosso Dossi of the hermit St. Jerome, who conquered the temptations of the flesh, but who is also the patron saint of bibliophiles.
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" Hence the relative reserve with which the narrator subsequently details her liaison with Cliff, a rakish, "reckless" horseman — he rides like a Cossack — whom she falls for with the same helpless lust with which teenage bibliophiles swoon over Emily Brontë's brooding antihero: "It is hard to describe how handsome Cliff was, how sexy and how attracted I was.
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Or you could do what the smartest bibliophiles do: Put yourself in the hands of the staff at the London bookstore Heywood Hill, who promise to go to the ends of the earth to hunt down the books you need — the rare, the old and the out of print as well as the newly published — to build your perfect custom library.
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In the tight community of bibliophiles and antique book dealers, the theft is viewed not as an audacious heist, but as something of a fool's errand: Whenever books are stolen, the antique book world springs into action, activating informal email trees to alert sellers, libraries and book lovers of the stolen titles and employing the aid of databases that log every pilfered text.
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The National Union of Bibliophiles (NUB), full name Non-Commercial Partnership “The National Union of Bibliophiles” (), is a public organisation, an association of bibliophiles of the Russian Federation. It was formed as legal entity in 2010.
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The Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines (1889–1894) consisted of 160 people from literary circles, including Avril.
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Levrenova, Magazine for bibliophiles "Pro Knigi" ("About Books"). By the periodical’s anniversary. // The University book. — 2012.
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Its members are drawn from around the world and include many of the most knowledgeable of bibliophiles.
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M. Seslavinsky, A. Ayoshin. The Moscow bibliophile’s revenge // "Magazine for bibliophiles "Pro Knigi" ("About Books")". — 2013. — № 4.
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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: > The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex. Walter de > Gruyter Press. Page 58.
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Run by Carmen Blue, the Annex drew bibliophiles from the entire Orange Country region until it closed in 1987.
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NUB’s history starts in 1990, when the Organisation of Russian Bibliophiles, ORB () was chartered, which had united on an informal basis around 100 lovers of antique rare books. A successful 20-years period of the life of ORB (it organised more than 10 exhibitions and issued over 200 printed works) was finalized in 2010. A need for substantial changes in the structure and activities of the organisation was the key driver for the bibliophiles’ decision to set up a new association in the form of a legal entity – the Non-Commercial Partnership “The National Union of Bibliophiles”, which effectively has become a successor to the Organisation of Russian Bibliophiles. The founders’ meeting of NUB was held on 22 October 2010 in Moscow at the State Literature Museum.
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The Club of Odd Volumes is a private social club and society of bibliophiles founded in 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Only appearing in Master Comics #81. Two crooks who decide to impersonate British bibliophiles who are checking an original Shakespeare volume worth $100,000. They pretend to be drivers, then knock out the two, stealing their clothes and papers. Bulletman realizes they are fakes and with Bulletgirl follows them back to their Hotel, where the Bibliophiles are bound and gagged.
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The Hroswitha Club was a membership-based club of women bibliophiles and collectors based in New York City, active from 1944 to 1999.
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Jules Clarétie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains, 1re série, Aristes decedes de 1870 a 1880. Paris, Bibliotheque des Bibliophiles, 1882, pg. 183-185. Cited by LaMoitier.
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Collection Peiresc The library is known to bibliophiles all over France and is scheduled to move into roomier quarters in the former Hôtel-Dieu in 2013.
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Mulholland was a close friend of Harry Houdini.Basbanes, Nicholas A. (1995). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. Henry Holt and Company. p.
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August Sandgren's bindings are some of the most coveted among Danish and international book collectors and bibliophiles, due to their beauty, high technical quality and stylish design.
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Sculptors of Ligier Richier's era were known as "Imagiers"."Ligier Richier" by Auguste Lepage. Published in 1868 by Academies des Bibliophiles. Paris. In medieval French this was written as "yimagier".
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He was born in Unecha, Russia, and immigrated to the US as a child.Opritsa D. Popa. 2003. Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex. Page 225.
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By contrast, collectors of books, even if they collect for aesthetic reasons (fine bookbindings or illuminated manuscripts for example), are called bibliophiles, and their collections are typically referred to as libraries.
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Holbrook Jackson in 1913 George Holbrook Jackson (31 December 1874 – 16 June 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.
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Wheatley has won the Inkpot, Speakeasy, and Mucker awards,Given by The Chicago Muckers , a chapter of the international fan organization the Burroughs Bibliophiles. and has been nominated for the Harvey and Ignatz awards.
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Couchoud, P. L; Stahl, R. (1927). Jesus Barabbas. The Hibbert Journal 25: 26–42. He was a member of the Fourchette Harmonique Club of Bibliophiles and wrote for the L'art Musical and La France Chorale.
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books is a 1995 nonfiction book of book collecting case studies by Nicholas A. Basbanes. It was a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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Silverman notes a contrast between the snobbish, dandy and reactionary side of Uzanne with a penchant for forgotten authors of the 17th and 18th centuries, and he, in turn, was an innovative artist and bibliophile, the antithesis of the antique collectors of the "old guard", formed by bibliophiles—mostly aristocrats—who organised the Société des Bibliophiles François. Uzanne spent his last years in his apartment in Saint- Cloud, where he died on 21 October 1931. His remains were cremated at the crematorium and cemetery Père Lachaise.
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After leaving the Société des Amis des Livres, which he found too conservative and too concerned with the reissue of old works, he started two new bibliographic societies, the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines (1889–1894) and the Societé des Bibliophiles Indépendants (1896–1901). The first consisted of 160 people, including the writers Jules Claretie and Jean Richepin, the artists Albert Robida and Paul Avril, and the journalist and critic Francisque Sarcey. Uzanne also edited two magazines, Conseiller du bibliophile (literally, Adviser of bibliophile, 1876–1877) and Les miscellanées bibliographiques (The Bibliographical Miscellany, 1878–1880), and then ran three consecutive bibliophilic magazines: Le livre : bibliographie moderne (literally, The Book: Modern Bibliography, 1880–1889), Le livre moderne : revue du monde littéraire et des bibliophiles contemporaines (literally, The Modern Book: Journal of the Literary World and Contemporary Bibliophiles, 1890–1891), and L'Art et l'Idée : revue contemporaine du dilettantisme l'littéraire et de la curiosité (Art and Ideas: Contemporary Journal of the Literary Dilettantism and Curiosity, 1892–1893). In the early 1890s, he was considered to be "... the best authority that book lovers know on subjects specially interesting to book lovers".
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Paul and Victor Margueritte, Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910). His novel La Garçonne (1922) was considered so shocking it caused the author to lose his Légion d'honneur.
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Basbanes' first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was published in 1995. The topic was originally dismissed as too arcane for a general readership by many New York editors who had passed on the opportunity to publish it, but the book later found sizable success with multiple printings.William A. Davis, "Bible for Bibliophiles: Basbanes' 'A Gentle Madness' Confounds the Naysayers, " Boston Globe, June 26, 1996, reprinted Bates Magazine, Spring 1997. and John Baker, "A Mania for Books," Publishers Weekly, vol. 252, issue 45, November 11, 2005.
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His research produced a considerable literary output and frequent publications in newspapers such as L'Echo, Le Plume, Dépêche de Toulouse, Le Mercure de France, Le Gaulois and Le Figaro of Paris. One of the topics his research focused on was the discussion of fashion and femininity in the French fin-de-siècle. This took the form of monographs and works including Son Altesse la femme (French for Her Highness Woman), Féminies and La Française du siècle (The Frenchwoman of the Century). His own works include novels and fantasy books, such as Surprises du Coeur and Contes pour les bibliophiles (Tales for bibliophiles).
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Sarah Gildersleeve Fife (28 Sep 1885 - 20 May 1949) was a prominent force among women bibliophiles in the first half of the 20th century and a leader in gardening and horticulture, advocating the use of plantings around army bases and military hospitals.
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The list and the whimsy has continued with events such as the annual "running of the book scouts" on the day of St. John of God, the patron of booksellers. Today its membership is just over 1000 booksellers, collectors, librarians, and general bibliophiles.
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Lady Eccles was made an Honorary Fellow of Samuel Johnson's college at Oxford, Pembroke College. She was also Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was a member of The Roxburghe Club, an exclusive society of bibliophiles, from 1985-2003.
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In 1988, Chorao published Cathedral Mouse, which was well received by critics and featured among the ten best children's picture books of the year, by New York Times.Books of The Times; For Junior Bibliophiles, 10 Favorites of the Year. The New York Times.
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Together with the National Union of Bibliophiles, Pro Knigi is the founder of honours "For the personal contributions to the development of national Bibliophilia in the name of N. Smirnov-Sokolsky". O. Lasunsky, V. Petritsky, I. Chertkov (2013) and Y. Berdichevsky (2014) were awarded the medal.
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In particular, superb Flemish editions were produced in the 15th century for Philip the Good and other wealthy bibliophiles. The Speculum is probably the most popular title in this particular market of illustrated popular theology, competing especially with the Biblia pauperum and the Ars moriendi for the accolade.
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Guerrino and the Savage Man is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola.Giovanni Francesco Straparola, "Guerrino and the Savage Man" The Facetious Nights by Straparola. W. G. Waters, translator. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901.
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Bibliomania; or Book Madness was first published in 1809 by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847). Written in the form of fictional dialogues from bibliophiles, it purports to outline a malady called bibliomania. Title page to the 1842 edition. Dibdin was trained and practiced as an Anglican clergyman.
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Bazalgette, at one time tailor to the Prince of Wales, was a successful money-lender and financier. "James Lawrell Esq. of Eastwick" occurs in William Carew Hazlitt's list of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. Lawrell's library was put up for auction by Sotheby's long after his death, in 1860.
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Adler spent over a year organizing the 2015 Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliophiles' Convention (aka Dum Dum), which she then hosted, August 20–23, in her home town of Clinton, Connecticut.retrieved 29 August 2015 Members of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) family, along with ERB comic strip writers & artists, authors of ERB related books; and Burroughs Bibliophiles came from all over North America to celebrate Burroughs’ genius. A movie marathon; panel discussions; presentations; a “Comic Con” workshop for kids; a Tarzan yell competition retrieved 30 August 2015(judged by members of ERB’s family); a video tribute to the late Denny Miller; an auction of ERB memorabilia; and vendors galore were there. And the public was invited – FOR FREE.
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The public could also dine at the Dum Dum banquet, at the Clinton Country Club—for the same fee as the Bibliophiles. There, the guest of honor and banquet speaker was Tony Award winner, William Berloni, talking about training animals for performance. And the 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award was given, posthumously, to Denny Miller, who in 1959 was the 12th motion picture Tarzan. The Burroughs Bibliophiles is a nonprofit 501c(3) literary society, founded in 1960 ten years after Edgar Rice Burroughs death, which is devoted to his life, works and fictional characters. Burroughs is best known for his creation of “Tarzan” and “John Carter of Mars”—although he produced works in other genres as well.
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77 Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books (10 vols. 1805-9), his editions of Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800), Arthur Collins's Peerage of England (1812), and of many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founding member of the Roxburghe Club, a publishing club of wealthy bibliophiles.
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Montrouge in 1900 Montrouge (15 March 1825 – 22 December 1903), born Louis (Émile) Hesnard,Gazette Anecdotique, Littéraire, Artistique et Bibliographique (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1881, p. 213. was a comic actor in French musical theatre in the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as a theatre manager in Paris.
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She created large artist's books and books in miniature. Several of her books took her years to complete. One of them, completed in 1996 with artist Don Bachardy, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through Ritchie, Stuart was introduced to prestigious librarians and bibliophiles from San Francisco to Paris.
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1907), 1933/12/21 (A27,N7621), p.1, Le Salon de Echanges..; Gallica BnF In 1944 he published a significant work “Montmartre village de Paris”. This book contains 25 watercolors where Fau expressed his tender love to Montmartre. The book was a great success and it completed collections of bibliophiles.
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The Book Club of Detroit (c. 1957) Detroit's historic Scarab Club, where Book Club meetings were held for many years. The Book Club of Detroit, is a private club and society of bibliophiles in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1957, The Book Club of Detroit, is a club for book collectors.
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The Bibliophile Mailing List is an electronic mailing list for sellers and collectors of rare, out-of-print and scarce books. Booksellers, librarians, students, scholars, and book lovers, share news and discussions on all manner of topics of interest to bibliophiles, as well as posting books wanted and books for sale listings.
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In 1907, his honorary doctorate was awarded at Oxford University. In 1922, he served as the first chairman of the Norwegian Association of Bibliophiles (Bibliofiklubben). Reusch died at Hvalstad Station while attempting to enter a train. At the time of his death, his large private library of books encompassed 12 000 volumes.
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A Catholic himself, Opaliński was critical of the zealous Society of Jesus and supported religious tolerance. He was a patron of writers, scientists and a bibliophiles. Opaliński was a lifelong political rival of starost Bogusław Leszczyński in Greater Poland. When in 1648 Poland elected John II Casimir as king, Opaliński joined the opposition.
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Antoine Le Roux de Lincy (Paris, 22 August 1806 – Paris, 13 May 1869) was a 19th-century French librarian, romanist and medievalist. After graduating from the École Nationale des Chartes (promotion 1831-1832), Le Roux was appointed at the bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He also was secretary of the Société des bibliophiles français.
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Pro Knigi (About Books) () – is a quarterly educational magazine that contains information about old books, the study thereof, the history of bibliophiles and the problems of book-collecting. It has been published in Moscow since 2007. The circulation of the magazine is about 2000 copies. It is distributed both by retail and subscription.
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The Book Club of Detroit is club whose members are book collectors, book dealers and bibliophiles who meet in the interest not only of sociability, but to share and expand interest in the history of books and bookmaking. The Club met regularly for many years at the historic Scarab Club in downtown Detroit.
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The Hroswitha Club was founded in 1944 by a group of women bibliophiles: Sarah Gildersleeve Fife (who convened the group), Belle da Costa Greene, Anne Lyon Haight, Ruth S. Granniss, Eleanor Cross Marquand, Henrietta C. Bartlett and Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. It was named in honor of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, a 10th-century German secular canoness, dramatist and poet. At the time of the Club's founding, women bibliophiles were not allowed membership in many premier bibliographic societies such as the Grolier Club, the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America, or the Caxton Club. (This policy remained in place at both the Grolier and Caxton Clubs until 1976.) The first meeting of the Hroswitha Club was held on November 16, 1944, at the Cosmopolitan Club.
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Daubray in 1876. Michel René Thibaut, known by his stage-name Daubray,Gazette Anecdotique, Litteraire, Artistique et Bibliographique. Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris, 1881, page 213. born Nantes 7 May 1837, died Paris 10 September 1892 was a leading French actor and singer in operetta, active mainly in Paris but who also appeared around Europe.
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She was still actively involved in organizations such as Information Science in the 1980s. She served on the Task Force on Library and Information Services to Cultural Minorities of the National Commission on Libraries. During her retirement she wrote a chapter on the Schomburg Center in Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History.
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Louis de Bourbon (15 June 1709 - 16 June 1771)Jules Cousin, Le Comte de Clermont: Sa Cour et Ses Maitresses, Paris: Académie des Bibliophiles, 1867.Willis, Daniel, The Descendants of Louis XIII, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1999, . p. 74. was a member of the cadet branch of the then reigning House of Bourbon.
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The main contribution of Zang Maoxun is the Selected plays from the Yuan Dynasty. In addition to his family's rich collection, he gathered rare editions from many other bibliophiles. He borrowed three hundred from Liu Chengxi of Macheng and gathered additional ones from other collectors. Zang Maoxun poured his money and vigour into this enterprise.
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Esther Chevalier Esther Chevalier (13 September 1853, Montrouge, – 1936)Gazette anecdotique, littéraire, artistique et bibliographique, Paris Librairie des bibliophiles, 1889. was a French mezzo-soprano, active in Paris almost exclusively at the Opéra-Comique, appearing in several operatic premieres there.Soubies A, Malherbe C. Histoire de l'opéra comique - La seconde salle Favart 1840-1887. Flammarion, Paris, 1893.
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"Obituary: Sheldon Dorf; Comic-Con co-founder," U-T San Diego (November 4, 2009). The 1970 show, organized by Buckler and DTFF originator Robert Brosch,Buckler entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Retrieved February 5, 2016. expanded to a five-day affair that shared events with "Dum-Dum '70" (put on by Burroughs' Bibliophiles).
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Dillon drove the business forward delivering books by bike within her own target of eight hours. Her business thrived and her customers, and friends, included C. Day Lewis, the poet John Betjeman and other bibliophiles. Dillon subsequently sold the majority of the company to the University of London in 1956, with the proviso that it used her name.
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The classic bibliophile is one who loves to read, admire and collect books, often amassing a large and specialized collection. Bibliophiles usually possess books they love or that hold special value as well as old editions with unusual bindings, autographed, or illustrated copies. "Bibliophile" is an appropriate term for a minority of those who are book collectors.
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"Innis (Empire), p.116. Most of the books, however, were "third-hand compendia of snippets and textbooks, short cuts to knowledge, quantities of tragedies, and an active comedy of manners in Athens. Literary men wrote books about other books and became bibliophiles." Innis reports that by the 2nd century "everything had been swamped by the growth of rhetoric.
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McNair contributed to many aspects of the culture of Winnipeg, he and partner Richard Orlandini operated Borealis Books for many years, they were thoughtful bibliophiles who set the standard for a used book store in a city that is renowned for them. At the time of his death McNair was the President of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights.
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These informal associations of intellectuals profoundly influenced Renaissance culture. Some of the richest "bibliophiles" built libraries as temples to books and knowledge. A number of libraries appeared as manifestations of immense wealth joined with a love of books. In some cases, cultivated library builders were also committed to offering others the opportunity to use their collections.
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He based his plan on the Manuel of J.-Ch. BrunetManuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres; 4e édition / dans laquelle les nouvelles recherches bibliographiques, pub. par l'auteur en 1834, pour y servir de supplément, sont refondues et mises à leur place ... le tout rédigé et mis en ordre par une société de bibliophiles belges.
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The book didgest. — 2012. — № 06-07. 200 year anniversary since the end of the Great Patriotic War of the year 1812 (2012, No. 3). There are members of the National bibliophiles’ union, leading library contributors (RSL, RNL), contributors of museums, galleries, arts critics, book historians, and also experts in antiquarian book trading among the magazine's authors.
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"I saw by this verdict divestiture of the freedom of the Jewish individual, and decided to leave Germany at the earliest possible hour,"Avrin, Leila. "People of the Book: Eliyahu Koren", Israel Bibliophiles, Spring 1986. he would later recall. Korngold and a group of friends left Bavaria on April 1, 1933, and arrived in Haifa, Palestine on May 15 of that year.
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Queen Anne Press also published the journal The Book Collector (formerly Book Handbook), whose editorial board consisted of bibliophiles Michael Sadleir, John Hayward, John Carter, Percy Muir and Ian Fleming.Pearson, John. The Life of Ian Fleming (London: Jonathan Cape, 1966) p.264. The Queen Anne Press has also published the sporting annuals Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Rothmans Football Yearbook and Rothmans Snooker Yearbook.
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Its empirical standards were applied in one of the first and certainly strongest homes for serious textual criticism. As the same text often existed in several different versions, comparative textual criticism was crucial for ensuring their veracity. Once ascertained, canonical copies would then be made for scholars, royalty, and wealthy bibliophiles the world over, this commerce bringing income to the library.
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Jadrný, 1983) Another member of the group was the novelist Josef Škvorecký. Hrabal produced stories for the group, but did not seek publication. Two stories by Hrabal (Hovory lidí) appeared in 1956 as a supplement in the annual Report of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles (), which had a print-run of 250. Hrabal's first book was withdrawn a week before publication, in 1959.
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He later moved to premises in Denmark Court, and on to Duke Street, St. James's. With C. Kalthoeber he was employed by William Beckford on the Fonthill Abbey library. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (Lord Spencer's librarian) was an admirer of his work and character, and recommended him to other bibliophiles. Lewis was foremost among the bookbinders of London by 1823 and employed 23 journeymen.
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Apart from separate writers or bibliophiles, a group of "scribes" used to give a legal from to the ideas of people and relations among them. In the judgment of Ivane Javakhishvili, one or several scribes should be group leaders. There is an impression that it should be a cooperation of "writers", who determined rights and obligations of group leader and its members.
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Granniss was a member of the New York Library Club and the Bibliographical Society of America. In the 1930s, she was an early contributor to The Colophon. In 1944, she was one of the founding members of the Hroswitha Club, a group of women bibliophiles. In 1945, she moved from New York back to Old Saybrook, Connecticut to live with her sister Sarah.
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Henri Bellery-Desfontaines was born in Paris. He is thought to have begun his artistic training under the tutelage of Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920). During his years as a student, he began to illustrate magazines. In 1895, drawn to illustration, probably due to financial problems, and he started to produce work for publications such as L'Image, L'Estampe Moderne, and L'Almanach des Bibliophiles.
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The Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU; in English "The Association of Universal Booklovers") is a French language organization dedicated to producing e-text versions of public domain French texts. It was founded in April 1993, and has members from Belgium, Canada, France, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA. The project is currently inactive; the latest e-texts published date from 2002.
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151 17\. Of showing due Propriety in the Custody of Books Longe namque diligentius librum quam calcium convenit conservari. Like all bibliophiles, de Bury argues in this chapter that books must be cared for appropriately and gives a detailed account of how they should be used. "In the first place as to the opening and closing of books, let there be due moderation".
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These editions are highly prized by bibliophiles. A skilled lithographer, he worked with the greatest engravers of his time including Gusman, Eugene Decisy, Raoul Serres, Florian and Perrichon. His first works were full of symbolism and art nouveau mixed with many references to mythological and allegorical subjects. His later works show greater academic rigor and an obvious fascination for the female anatomy.
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After Oundle, he studied at St John's College, Oxford, and worked for some years in publishing (at Routledge in London) before moving into antiquarian bookselling. He specialised in the study of private presses and the book-arts, but also wrote on Shakespeare, Japanese books and prints, Lord Chesterfield, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and on printing techniques and media. He was Honorary President of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, Patron to the Oundle School Society of Bibliophiles, President of the Private Libraries Association and the Double Crown Club. On 19 April 2019, he was appointed to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur by the President of France in recognition of his service on HMS Kimberley in August 1944, when he was a junior officer taking part in Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France.
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Octave Uzanne (14 September 1851 – 31 October 1931) was a 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist. He is noted for his literary research on the authors of the 18th century. He published many previously unpublished works by authors including Paradis Moncrif, Benserade, Caylus, Besenval, the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire. He founded the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines, of which he was president.
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The Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, in its later years Maatschappij der Vlaamsche Bibliophilen ("Society of Flemish Bibliophiles") was a text publication society based in Ghent, Belgium. The society was founded by Philip Blommaert and Constant-Philippe Serrure in 1839 to produce editions of medieval Flemish literature. It was active until 1909. By current scholarly standards, the quality of the editions shows little palaeographical and codicological expertise.
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Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters on his journey of investigation, including devil worshippers, obsessed bibliophiles and a hypnotically enticing femme fatale. Corso's travels take him to Madrid (Spain), Sintra (Portugal), Paris (France) and Toledo (Spain). The Club Dumas is full of details ranging from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might forge a 17th-century text, as well as insight into demonology.
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From 2006 on, Urmet is a member of the Tallinn Club of Bibliophiles, from 2007 on a member of the Estonian Literary Society and the Estonian Union of Writers. Urmet started publishing articles, reviews and essays in 1999. In 2000, he made his debut as a poet with the collection "Maaaraamat".Maaaraamat (Kaaruka küla, 2000, English; Countrybook : The Curved Village)- Retrieved 2019-02-02, .
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François-Ambroise Didot (son of François Didot) was born in 1730 and died in 1804. François-Ambroise Didot inherited the work of his father François. He was appointed printer to the clergy in 1788. Many bibliophiles value the editions known as "D'Artois" (Recueil de romans français, 64 volumes) and "du Dauphin", a collection of French classics in 32 volumes, edited by order of Louis XVI.
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He travelled through Italy and made a tour in the Levant. In 1826 he returned to England. There he encountered gossip and innuendo that had blown up in his absence, concerned with a friendship he had made through the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles with Richard Heber. John Bull hinted over two of its issues at the idea that the relationship of Heber and Hartshorne was homosexual.
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From then on his reputation continued to grow, with more exhibitions and commissions, particularly for publications. Rassenfosse illustrated the supplement to the 1895 catalog of Rops' engravings published by Eugene Rodrigues in 1895. Between 1899 and 1901, Rassenfosse undertook a major contract with Rodrigues's "Societe des Cent Bibliophiles" to illustrate Charles Baudelaire's poems Les Fleurs du mal. He created 160 color etchings for the book.
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Oakeshott, Walter Fraser (1903–1987), Harpers Magazine. His portrait was made by Jean Cooke, who had been commissioned for the work by Lincoln College. Oakeshott was elected as a member of the Roxburghe Club for bibliophiles in 1949.Membership information, Roxburghe Club, UK. On 14 June 1980 it was announced that Oakeshott was to be awarded the honour of Knight Bachelor by the Queen, for "services to medieval literature".
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Notes and Comments, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 1957), p. 302. He also printed books of varying types, including works by Richard Barnfield and John Davies of Hereford. To modern book collectors and bibliophiles, Jaggard is known as the printer and publisher of Edward Topsell's The History of Four-Footed Beasts (1607) and The History of Serpents (1608), famous for their lush and often-reproduced illustrations.
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He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954. He was president of the Grolier Club from 1947 to 1951. After his third marriage in 1969, Adams resigned from the Morgan Library and moved to Paris with his wife after their marriage. There he served at president of the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, the most prestigious organization of bibliophiles in the world.
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Photoplay edition refers to movie tie-in books of the silent film and early sound era at a time when motion pictures were known as "photoplays". Typically, photoplay editions were reprints of novels additionally illustrated with scenes from a film production. Less typically, photoplay editions were novelizations of films, where the film script was fictionalized in narrative form. Today, vintage photoplay editions are sought after by film buffs, bibliophiles, and collectors.
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The Book Club of California is a non-profit membership organization of bibliophiles based in San Francisco, operating continuously since 1912. Its mission is to support the art of fine printing related to the history and literature of California and the western states of America through research, publishing, public programs, and exhibitions. It is the largest book collector's club in the United States, with more than 800 members nationwide.
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She served on the board of directors of Congress on Research in Dance from 1983 to 1986. Bond was a member of several organizations including the World Dance Alliance, American Society for Theatre Research, Society of Dance History Scholars, Association of Popular Culture, Maryland Historical Society, the Jane Austen Society of North America, the Baltimore Bibliophiles, Delta Kappa Gamma, and the American Associations for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
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SP Books is an independent publishing house specialised in the publication of limited facsimile editions of literary manuscripts..SP Books: Manuscripts and prints - SP Books (Editions des Saints Peres) .Publishers Weekly: SP Books Finds Niche with Reproductions of Classic Manuscripts .Newsweek: The French publishing house bringing authors' manuscripts to life . Founded in 2012 by Nicolas Tretiakow and Jessica NelsonThe Guardian: Jane Eyre facsimile manuscript to be published for Brontë bibliophiles.
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He was also active as a bibliophile. From 1898 to 1900 he was chairman of the "Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen" ("Society of Bibliophiles"), which had been founded by Fedor von Zobeltitz, and belonged for several more years to the executive. For his 75th birthday Heyck received the "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" ("Goethe Medal for Art and Science") from Adolf Hitler. He died, aged 79, at Ermatingen, Switzerland.
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They are: a bibliologist E. Nemirovsky, bibliophile A. Finkelstein, a literary critic, Russian futurism researcher A. Parnis, a national graphic design classicist, arts critic V. Krichevsky. One of the leading Russian book graphic artists I. Sakurov and a famous national comic book artist A. Ayoshin work with the magazine. A genuine interest among readers was aroused by bibliophilic anecdotes,Bibliophilic anecdotes // "Magazine for bibliophiles "Pro Knigi" ("About Books")".
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Book Lovers Day (aka National Book Lovers Day in the US) is celebrated on August 9 every year. This is an unofficial holiday observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrate reading and literature. People are advised to put away their smartphones and every possible technological distraction and pick up a book to read. Book Lovers Day is widely recognized on global scale yet its origin and creator remain unknown to date.
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He was succeeded by Roger Morgan, who saw the library through a period of modern transformation of increasing digitisation, from 1977–91. In 1964, he became a member of the Roxburghe Club for bibliophiles. He had a considerable private collection of books and was an enthusiast of Victorian bindings. Dobson was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1976 New Year Honours.
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He also collected numerous antique objects of various natures (archaeology, numismatics, prints, silversmiths, etc.), including a rare collection of horse bits from Galiot de Genouillac, the king's great equerry, donated by his daughter to his successor in 1546 Claude Goufffier, lord of Oiron (Deux-Sèvres) and artefacts belonging to him. For more than 50 years, Pichon acquired one of the rarest books and manuscripts of his time, soon becoming president of the Société des bibliophiles français (SBF) in 1844, a society which he arbitrated efficiently, composing a number of bibliographic records intended for reissues, catalogues or publications and to the Bulletin des Bibliophiles. He used to reside 17 in the former hôtel de Charles Gruÿn des Bordes, better known as Hôtel de Lauzun which he restored from collector's period items; moreover, he rented certain rooms to creators such as Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier and it was there that the famous meetings of the Club des Hashischins took place. The SBF had its headquarters there.
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For Captain > Isaac Bencowitz, a Rockefeller Institute chemistry professor, and director > of the Central Collecting Point, and for his staff, the daily work of > sorting, cataloging, and finding the owners of these objects was a poignant > mission. Between March 1946 and April 1949 the Offenbach Archival Depot > succeeded in returning to survivors, descendants and museums over three > million looted items.Popa, Opritsa D. 2003. Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: > The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex.
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On the 27th of the same month, she ordered the reconstruction of that building to Pierre-Nicolas Delespine using plans by Jean Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond. She commissioned paintings by Lancret, Alexis Grimou, and possessed paintings by David Teniers the Younger and Antoine Watteau. She even owned a Portrait of Charles I of England by Van Dyke. Despite a dazzling collection of art, she was one of the greatest bibliophiles of her time.
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Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London, the United Kingdom. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (a Faber editor and director), W.H. Auden, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.Dwight Garner, "Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered" The New York Times Aug 23, 2019]. In 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year.
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Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book published in 1878 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", an imprint of Charles Carrington. The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated. Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent"; Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic"; Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.
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He bought a first edition of Dr. Samuel Johnson's Prologue, which David Garrick recited at his first opening night as manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1747. It was the first book printed by Horace Walpole at the Strawberry Hill Press. Rosenbach bought it for $3.60 at Henkel's auction house and later received an offer of $5,000 for the book, which he refused. At Penn, Rosenbach took part in the Bibliophiles Club.
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217-226 On 28 January 2011 the first general participants meeting of NUB was held in Moscow, where the Partnership Board comprising five members was formed by secret ballot. A prominent Moscow bibliophile and researcher in book culture, Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Mikhail Vadimovich Seslavinsky was elected Head of the Partnership Board.Alperina S. Oddities will save the world. National Union of Bibliophiles is formed in Russia // Rossiyskaya gazeta.
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The British manuscript was edited by Sigmund Gelen () in Prague"viaLibri Resources for Bibliophiles" and first published by Hieronymus Froben in 1533. This error-ridden text served as the basis for other editions and translations for three centuries, until the restoration of the original manuscript to Heidelberg in 1816. Schoff's heavily annotated 1912 English translation was itself based on a defective original; as late as the 1960s, the only trustworthy scholarly edition was Frisk's 1927 French study.
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Thesiger, Wilfried. The Marsh Arabs : Longman : London, 1964 Aside from protecting granaries and food stores from pests, cats were valued by the paper-based Arab-Islamic cultures for preying on mice that destroyed books. For that reason, cats are often depicted in paintings alongside Islamic scholars and bibliophiles. The medieval Egyptian zoologist Al-Damiri (1344–1405) wrote that the first cat was created when God caused a lion to sneeze, after animals on Noah's Ark complained of mice.
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He was president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1993-2006. He is also a member of the board of directors and textual consultant of the Library of America. He was president of the Grolier Club, the pre-eminent American society of bibliophiles, 1986-1990. Tanselle held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1969–70), American Council of Learned Societies (1973-74), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977–78).
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He worked with Gustave Doré, for which he composed ornaments like "The Holy Bible according to the Vulgate", published in 1866. He contributed drawings to several illustrated newspapers, such as Le Monde illustré, Le Magasin pittoresque, and L'Illustration. He also privately illustrated books that brought him wealthy bibliophiles. He was one of the organizers of the exposition of the century prints of 1887 and Section retrospective of Fine Arts, and the Universal Paris Exposition of 1889.
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He wrote at the time that Lady Munster's works had been "completely overlooked by bibliophiles and anthologists since her death". Lamb deemed this regrettable, as he considered Ghostly Tales "possibly her best work" and one of the "truly representative collections of Victorian ghost stories". Lamb also included another of her stories, "The Page-Boy's Ghost", in a 1988 anthology. However, modern author and editor Douglas A. Anderson has called the Countess's stories "standard, melodramatic fare", which are "perfectly forgettable".
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The store is currently managed by Reg Russell's granddaughter Andrea Minter and her husband Jordan Minter. The Montreal store remained in operation until 1999, when its location was expropriated for the expansion of the Palais des congrès de Montréal; Reg Russell then launched the smaller Diamond Books store in another location, and operated it until selling it upon his retirement in 2004.Pat Donnelly, "It's the end of an era for local bibliophiles". Montreal Gazette, August 21, 2004.
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Pro Knigi was supposed to be the keeper of traditions in the bibliophile period press of the early twentieth century. Before it, some magazines were published by a bookseller and collector N. Solovyev, "Anticvar" (1902–1903) and "Russian bibliophile" (1911–1916). The board of publishers of the magazine has been led by the Head of the National union of Bibliophiles, the Head of Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, M. Seslavinsky, since 2008.
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He also mentions a number of high British, Dutch-Belgian and Prussian officers, though he does not give their names. Colonel François Aimé Mellinet (chief-of-staff of the Young Guard DivisionSociété des bibliophiles bretons et de l'histoire de Bretagne, Nantes, Revue de Bretagne, de Vendée & d'Anjou. Vols. 17-18 (1897), p. 268) advised him on the map, as did "a number of Prussian generals" to whom he was introduced by Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.
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The Grolier Club's home at 47 East 60th Street The Grolier Club is a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Treasurer General of France, whose library was famous; his motto, "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" [of or belonging to Jean Grolier and his friends], suggested his generosity in sharing books.
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Agnes and Harry Keith were ardent bibliophiles. Following their deaths in 1982, their collection of books and documents on Borneo and South East Asia was auctioned in 2002. The collection numbered over 1,000 volumes, and had been gathered over many years. She wrote of the collection, which they were forced to abandon to the occupying Japanese forces, in Three Came Home: "Harry's library of Borneo books, perhaps the most complete in existence, his one self- indulgence...".
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In 1953, two bibliophiles, Eddie (Edmund) Frow and Ruth Haines, met at a Communist Party Summer School. In 1956, they set up home together and the merger of their book collections was the beginning of the Working Class Movement Library. They spent their spare time and money travelling around Britain, gathering new items for the collection. By 1960, the collection was being consulted by historians and academics, and they had attracted the support of other collectors of labour movement material.
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In 1946, the store distributed six million copies of the poem as a storybook, and Gene Autry popularized the song nationally. Regency Mall, Augusta, Georgia Huntington Center, Huntington Beach, California, demolished in 2010 "Electric Avenue" logo on closed store in Panorama City, California (2010) In 1946, the Grolier Club, a society of bibliophiles in New York City, exhibited the Wards catalog alongside Webster's Dictionary as one of 100 American books chosen for their influence on life and culture of the people.
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He spent the rest of his career there, peaking at the position of chief executive from 1992 to 2002. He had then been director of international relations since 1980 and vice chief executive since 1985. He has chaired Folketrygdfondet from 2002 to 2006 as well as the Norwegian Jockey Club, Norsk Rikstoto and the exclusive bibliophiles' society Bibliofilklubben. In 2009 he made a name as a non-fiction writer, when he released the book Tusen dager together with Jo Stein Moen.
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The treatise became a fencing bestseller around Europe, and was reprinted until 1713 and translated into several languages, notably into German, and again in 2005, into English. His treatise, first published by Henrico Waltkirch, is also regarded as one of the finest examples of baroque printing, with its 191 copperplate engravings by Jan van Haelbeck, Francesco Valeggio and possibly other artists. This book is also important to bibliophiles because it is the first Danish book to feature copperplate engravings.Richard Cammel, Philobiblon, 1936.
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In 1929, Rocker was a co-founder of the Gilde freiheitlicher Bücherfreunde (Guild of Libertarian Bibliophiles), a publishing house which would release works by Alexander Berkman, William Godwin, Erich Mühsam, and John Henry Mackay. In the same year he went on a lecture tour in Scandinavia and was impressed by the anarcho-syndicalists there. Upon return, he wondered whether Germans were even capable of anarchist thought. In the 1930 elections, the Nazi Party received 18.3% of all votes, a total of 6 million.
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Both Agnes and Harry Keith were ardent bibliophiles. Agnes wrote of the first incarnation of their collection of books and documents on Borneo and South East Asia, which they were forced to abandon to the occupying Japanese forces, in Three Came Home: "Harry's library of Borneo books, perhaps the most complete in existence, his one self-indulgence...".Keith 1955, p.37 The pre-war collection was completely lost, and so the Keiths started a new collection from scratch after the war.
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Normally staged in early August, it has played host to a range of jazz musicians from across the world. A Brecon Fringe Festival organises alternative free music in pubs, hotels, galleries and cafes in the town. Hay-on-Wye is a destination for bibliophiles in the United Kingdom, with two dozen bookshops, many selling specialist and second-hand books. Richard Booth opened his first shop there in 1962, and by the 1970s Hay had gained the nickname "The Town of Books".
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Les Lutteurs (The Wrestlers), colored wood panel (1925). François-Louis Schmied (born November 8, 1873 in Geneva; died January 1941 in Tahanaout, Morocco), was a French painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin. Of Swiss origin, François-Louis Schmied established himself in France, where he was later naturalized, and ultimately was exiled in Morocco around 1931 or 1932. He is considered a major artist in the Art Deco style, particularly in the area of publishing for bibliophiles.
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In a letter from 1876 Regnier says that the unusual first name of Philoclès comes from the French translation of Agathocle by Christoph Martin Wieland whose his godfather was a great admirer. The name of Charles was substituted at his baptism, but the destruction of civil registers during the Paris Commune allowed him to recover it at the time of the reconstitution of his birth certificate.Quoted in Georges d'Heylli, Gazette anecdotique n° 13 (15 July 1885), Librairie des bibliophiles, 1885, .
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Una Dillon founded the bookshop in 1932, but bought out a failing bookseller on Gower Street (near University College London) in 1936, and moved into the building most associated with the brand. Dillon drove the business forward, including delivering books by bike within eight hours. Her customers and friends included C. Day Lewis, John Betjeman and other bibliophiles. Dillon subsequently sold the majority of the company to the University of London in 1956, with the proviso that it used her name.
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While it is a fictional work, many of the characters are modeled after Dibdin’s own friends and acquaintances. Later editions are “dedicated” to Richard Heber, one of the age’s most incurable bibliophiles.Gawthrop, H. (2002). Frances-Mary Richardson Currer and Richard Heber: Two Unwearied Bibliophiles on the Fringe of the Brontë World. Brontë Studies: The Journal of The Brontë Society, 27: 225-234 Bibliomania was spreading as private collectors sparred in auction houses like “Book-Knights”, no doubt spurred on by the book's growing popularity.
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In 1944, Fife helped found the Hroswitha Club of women book collectors in New York City and served as its first president. The club was named for Hrotsvitha, a 10th-century German secular canoness, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in the Abbey of Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony. The club gave women a place to exchange information about books and collecting. Until creation of the Hroswitha, there were no institutions available to women bibliophiles in the New York area.
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Frère, at once started completing its catalog and review, by increasing the number of notes. Frère never knew a moment's respite, in his life of seventy-six years, because death caught him when he had just finished printing the Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, relatifs à la Normandie. Frère had been a member of the Société libre d'émulation de la Seine-Inférieure, since 1828. He also belonged to the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy and the Society of Norman Bibliophiles.
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The documentary features interviews with Edgar Rice Burroughs' grandson Danton Burroughs, Tarzan film actors Denny Miller and Gordon Scott, Sheena film actors Tanya Roberts and France Zobda, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., primate-specializing actor Peter Elliott, and Edgar Rice Burroughs historian Scott Tracy Griffin, and was filmed on location in Tarzana, California, at the 1996 'Dum Dum', an annual gathering of the Edgar Rice Burroughs' fan society 'The Burroughs Bibliophiles'. Aspects of the Tarzan mystique were discussed, including the racism inherent in Tarzan and other Burroughs novels.
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At the end of the 1970s, a historical association called Vityaz (, lit. "Knight"), sponsored by the Soviet Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, established an "informal historical, cultural and educational organization" uniting activists-bibliophiles and amateur historians. One of the purposes of the newly formed organization was to prepare the upcoming celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo. Some notable Vityaz activists in Moscow were Ilya Glazunov (artist), S. Malyshev (historian), and A. Lebedev (Colonel of the MVD).
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Shortly after the founding of the state of Israel, the City's mayor Gershon Agron created a design competition among graphic designers for the city's national emblem. The winning design was made by a team led by Eliyahu Koren, the founding director of the Jewish National Fund's graphics department, and an influential typeface and book designer.Avrin, Leila. "People of the Book: Eliyahu Koren," Israel Bibliophiles, Spring 1986.Friedman, Joshua J. “Prayer Type: How Eliyahu Koren used typography to encourage a new way to pray.”, Tablet, June 30, 2009.
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Alfred Bonnardot in 1868 at age 60 (as reproduced in Perrot 1911). Alfred Bonnardot (1808-1884) was a French essayist, independent historian, and bibliophile. His most notable work is a study on the architecture of medieval Paris, Etudes archeologiques sur les anciens plans de Paris des XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siecles (1851). He developed his antiquarian interests under the mentorship of Antoine Gilbert (1784-1858), grand sonneur of Notre Dame de Paris and Jérôme Pichon (1812-1896), president of the Société des bibliophiles français.
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The Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of Nikolai Lobachevsky Scientific Library Kazan University Nikolai Lobachevsky Scientific Library has one of the world's most important bibliographical collections, including 15,000 manuscripts and 3,000 rare books. Opened in 1809, it first contained Count G. Potemkin's books brought to Kazan in 1799 mixed with collections of the earliest bibliophiles V. Polyansky and N. Bulich. Subsequently, the collections of Solovetsky Monastery were added to the library. These original books remain and are kept in the special depository of the library.
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Following Mardersteig's death in 1977 his son, Martino Mardersteig, took over the running of the Stamperia Valdonega, and still occasionally used the Officina Bodoni imprint for works he printed on his father's hand-presses. The books of the Officina Bodoni are widely collected, and generally admired by typographers and bibliophiles. There are good collections in many major European and American libraries. The Bodleian Library at Oxford holds a particularly rich collection, based partly on books and ephemera acquired from the typographical scholar John Ryder.
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On 27 February 1901, he was elected a member of the "Société des bibliophiles françois", established in 1820. At seat XII, he succeeded Jean Hély d'Oissel, Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches, Count Charpin-Feugerolles, Mme Standish-Noailles. In 1890, he had published to her attention, "Rôti- cochon" ("roast-pig") and was preparing for her an important and erudite study which was published in 1901 in the Almanach du bibliophile with which he collaborated since 1898. In 1903, appeared Jeunesse de Balzac by Gabriel Hanotaux and Georges Vicaire.
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At the start of his career, Uzanne focused on the lesser- known writers of the 18th century, creating four volumes of work published by Jouast, and an additional 20+ volumes published by Albert Quantin. He was an admirer of the Goncourt brothers, who were also writers on the subject of 18th-century France. Uzanne looked for mentors who were bibliophiles like him, rather than literary scholars (érudits) like his companions at the Arsenal. While focusing on past subjects, he was very up-to-date on the technical aspects of printing and publishing.
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Montgomery Ward died in 1913, aged 70. His wife Elizabeth bequeathed a large portion of the estate to Northwestern University and other educational institutions. The Montgomery Ward catalog's place in history was assured when the Grolier Club, a society of bibliophiles in New York, exhibited it in 1946 alongside Webster's Dictionary as one of the 100 books with the most influence on life and culture of the American people. A bronze bust honoring Ward and seven other industry magnates stands between the Chicago River and the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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With many other painters, he was a member of the Crozant School in the valleys of Creuse. In 1907, he was the founding president of the Société de l'histoire du costume, and he donated the family's collection of fashion prints to the society. Around the 1890s, Leloir and his students flooded the picture book market, inspired by photographs representing accurately costumes and attitudes of the past, much appreciated by bibliophiles. He was a prolific illustrator of books, especially for children, such as the Richelieu by , of magazines and fans.
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He also authored a secondary school textbook, contributed numerous articles to periodicals, and co-founded the Society of Bibliophiles and the publishing house Žinija. After the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, he returned to his farm near Ukmergė, where he was arrested and held in prison until Nazi Germany declared war on the USSR on 22 June 1941. Bizauskas was transported to a Soviet prison in Minsk in June 1941; he was shot by the NKVD along with several thousand other prisoners on 26 June 1941.
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Georges Charpentier was the son of Gervais Charpentier, a French bookseller and publisher. After spending a few years a journalist, he took over his father's publishing house, Bibliothèque Charpentier, in 1872 and began to publish adventurous contemporary authors, especially those known as proponents of naturalism. Besides Zola, Flaubert, and de Maupassant, his firm's author list included Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, and (continuing from his father's day) Théophile Gautier. In 1876 he created the Petite Bibliothèque Charpentier, a line of affordable editions illustrated with etchings that were targeted at bibliophiles.
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The early history of the manuscript and place of its provenance are unknown before 1876. There are some suggestions that it came from the scriptorium of the Lazarevsky monastery near Great Novgorod, but there is no unambiguous evidence to support the hypothesis. In early December 1876 the manuscript was brought to Moscow by a peasant from Arkhangelsk region and was acquired by a Rumyantsev Museum trustee, merchant, old believer S. T. Bolshakov. He showed it to other bibliophiles and then offered to sell it to the Rumyantsev Museum for 400 rubles.
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She spoke on plant illustration and wrote for the Garden Club of American Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a founding member of the Hroswitha Club, a group for women bibliophiles. In 1910, she became the first woman to serve on the Princeton Board of Education. Other civic activities included service in the Village Improvement Association and as a board member of the State Hospital in Trenton (now the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.) Marquand was born in New York, the daughter of Richard J. Cross and Matilda Redmond Cross.
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Furthermore, there are unanswered questions (Huang 1986: 73). If the text suddenly first appeared in the Song dynasty, why did it not arouse the suspicion of learned bibliophiles? What would a forger gain by spending the time and effort necessary to compile such an admirable text but not accepting its authorship? Huang says the most reasonable hypothesis is that the Nanfang caomu zhuang appearance in a printed edition did not attract any special attention because it was common knowledge among the Song literati that Ji Han wrote the text in the 4th century.
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According to Arthur H. Minters, the "private collecting of books was a fashion indulged in by many Romans, including Cicero and Atticus". The term bibliophile entered the English language in 1824.Merriam-Webster: bibliophile A bibliophile is to be distinguished from the much older notion of a bookman (which dates back to 1583), who is one who loves books, and especially reading; more generally, a bookman is one who participates in writing, publishing, or selling books.Merriam-Webster: bookman Lord Spencer and the Marquess of Blandford were noted bibliophiles.
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The academy's library, now named for the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, was inaugurated in 1932. It was based out of the National Library from 1932 to 1946, and in 1947 it moved to its current site at the Palacio Errázuriz in Buenos Aires. Thanks to a bequest from Juan José García Velloso, in 1936 the library gained 3,000 books of Latin American literature and theater. The collection of Alberto Cosito Muñoz, acquired in 1937, and issues of the Revue Hispanique and of publications of the Society of Spanish Bibliophiles supplemented the initial collection.
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Heber was one of the 18 founders in 1812 of the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles. He possessed extensive landed property in Shropshire and Yorkshire, and was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1821, was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford University from 1821 to 1826, and in 1822 was made a D.C.L. of that University. He was one of the founders of the Athenaeum Club, London. In 1826 he and Charles Henry Hartshorne, a friend he had made through the Roxburghe Club, encountered gossip and innuendo over the nature of their relationship.
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Blumberg believed that the government was plotting to keep the ordinary person from having access to rare books and unique materials, and so sought to liberate and release them in an attempt to thwart the government plot. Blumberg admitted that he saw himself as a custodian of the things he took.Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, 2012, 1999 and 1996 editions. Fine Books Press (for the 2012 edition), , He said he would never sell them because he thought that would be dishonest.
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The collection of books with autographs of writers, scholars, other personalities is an object of interest for many bibliophiles. The most precious autographs belong to personalities: Alecsandri Vasile, Dumitru Moruzi, Leon Boga, Paul Michael G. O. Zlatov, N. Moghileanski John G. Sbiera etc. The new image that created BNRM in the country and abroad contribute to the choice of different personalities or their relatives of the library as a place of conservation and making available to future generations some important private libraries. For this purpose, in the special collections are composed of these personalities funds.
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Staikos, 2007, p. 429 Teachers also were known to have small personal libraries as well as wealthy bibliophiles who could afford the highly ornate books of the period. Thus, in the 6th century, at the close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of Constantinople and Alexandria. Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the toe of Italy (modern Calabria) with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations.
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Prior's Field School in 1904 Arnold founded in January 1902 a remarkable school which was Prior's Field School for girls, in Godalming, Surrey.Prior's Field School – A Century Remembered 1902–2002 by Margaret Elliott, published by Prior's Field School Trust Ltd, . The school started with a five-acre (2 ha) plot and a moderately sized house designed by C.F.A. Voysey, Julia Huxley opened her school with herself as head with one boarder, five day girls, Miss English, Mademoiselle Bonnet, a wire-haired terrier and her -year-old son, Aldous. As head she taught her charges to enjoy culture and solitude and to be bibliophiles.
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The manuscript fetched £15,400, nearly four times the reserve price given it by Sotheby's auction house. It later became the possession of Eldridge R. Johnson and was displayed at Columbia University on the centennial of Carroll's birth. Alice was present, aged 80, and it was on this visit to the United States that she met Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the brothers who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Upon Johnson's death, the book was purchased by a consortium of American bibliophiles and presented to the British people "in recognition of Britain's courage in facing Hitler before America came into the war".
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Sparrow was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1929, winning a prize fellowship the same year H. L. A. Hart sat (unsuccessfully) for the first time. He became Warden of All Souls (1952–77) in an election in which he famously defeated A. L. Rowse. He was also a Fellow of Winchester (1951–81) and an Honorary Fellow of New College (1956–1992). In Oxford he was well known as a book-collector and bibliographer, and became President of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, in which role he influenced a generation of Oxford bookmen.
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In 1884 he became chief curator of the archives in Liège, but in 1885 he was appointed to the University of Liège, where he remained until his retirement in 1905. He taught palaeography from 1886, and from 1890 to 1896 was Professor of the History of Medieval and Modern Institutions, a position that he was glad to resign. After being widowed in 1886, he remarried the following year with Anne de Roodenbeke, who bore him four children. He was a co-founder of the Société des Bibliophiles liégeois and served as secretary, vice-president and president of the Institut archéologique liégeois.
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However, in the 1970s, the mulberry tree was cut down, because of the nearby construction works. Another popular landmark of the Old City is the local bookstore that sells mostly second-hand, but also new books. Situated amongst the Bukhara and the Multani Caravanserais, the Maiden Tower, and Hajinski's Palace (otherwise known as Charles de Gaulle House, because he stayed there during World War II), it is a popular destination of Bakuvian students and bibliophiles, mostly because of its low prices. The Old City of Baku is depicted on the obverse of the Azerbaijani 10 manat banknote issued since 2006.
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Academy of Versailles, Yvelines and of…, 1926, p. 35. The prince de Poix, in love with one of the chambermaids of the Queen, attends the coterie of Madam d'AngivilliersRambaud, Guy of, For the love of Dauphin, p. 53 and benefits from it to meet this young graduate in this living room of the street of the Oratory, in Paris. He is not a husband as sedentary as his vénérable fatherThe ménagier of Paris, treaty of morals and the domestic economy..., Company of the bibliophiles François (Paris, France), Albertano, Jean Noisy, Renault statement he goes elsewhere to separate from its wife.
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The Ema Klabin Foundation Library holds a collection of more than 3,000 books. Though small in size, it includes an important set of rare works, such as illuminated manuscripts, incunabula and Aldine editions. It also holds a collection of reports of European travelers in Brazil, ranging from 16th to 19th century, including works by André Thévet, Arnoldus Montanus, Robert Southey, Willem Blaeu, Maria Graham, von Spix, von Martius, etc. Another highlight of the collection is the set of luxury books published by the Society of the One Hundred Bibliophiles of Brazil, illustrated by some of the most important Brazilian modernist artists.
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Nicholas Andrew Basbanes (born May 25, 1943, in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American author who writes and lectures widely about authors, books and book culture. His subjects have included the "eternal passion for books" (A Gentle Madness); the history and future of libraries (Patience & Fortitude);Merle Rubin, "Can you have too many books? Musings on Bibliophiles From Classical Alexandria to the Internet," Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 2001. the "willful destruction of books" and the "determined effort to rescue them" (A Splendor of Letters);André Bernard, "Fear of Book Assasination [sic] Haunts Bibliophile's Musings," The New York Observer, December 15, 2003.
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She is co-author of the book Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, published by the University of Illinois Press. She serves on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation, the Lincoln Forum, the Lincoln Legal Papers, Center Theatre Group and the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College. She is also a trustee of Lincoln College. She created the Taper collection,Basbanes, Nicholas A., A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Henry Holt, New York, 1995, pp. 426-432.
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The most famous bookstore tourism destination is Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 2005-06, two regional booksellers associations--the Southern California Booksellers Association and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association--embraced Bookstore Tourism, offering trips to independent bookstores in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. The Bookstore Tourism movement encourages schools, libraries, reading groups, and organizations of all sizes to create day-trips and literary outings to cities and towns with a concentration of independent bookstores. It also encourages local booksellers to attract bibliophiles to their communities by employing bookstore tourism as an economic development tool.
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Paul Margueritte Paul Margueritte (20 February 1860 - 29 December 1918) was a French amateur mime who wrote several pantomimes, most notably Pierrot assassin de sa femme (Théâtre de Valvins, 1881) and, in collaboration with Fernand Beissier, Colombine pardonnée (Cercle Funambulesque, 1888).Paul and Victor Margueritte, Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910). Paul Margueritte was born in French Algeria, the son of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823–1870), who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sedan. An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed.
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Alternatively the drawings we have may have been a different set for Botticelli's own use and pleasure, which is the conclusion of Ronald Lightbown.Lightbown, 282 Although the printed and illustrated book was rapidly replacing the traditional and very expensive illuminated manuscript in the last decades of the 15th century, the grandest bibliophiles were still commissioning manuscripts,Ettlingers, 178-179 and continued to do so well into the next century, from artists such as Giulio Clovio (1498–1578), perhaps the last major artist to be mainly a manuscript illuminator. The drawings illustrate a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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The Grolier Club maintains a research library specializing in books, bibliography and bibliophily, printing (especially the history of printing and examples of fine printing), binding, illustration and bookselling. The Grolier Club has one of the more extensive collections of book auction and bookseller catalogs in North America.Grolier Club Library Overview Lasting Impressions: The Grolier Club Library (New York: Grolier Club, 2004) pp. 8–12.About The Grolier Club The Library has the archives of a number of prominent bibliophiles such as Sir Thomas Phillipps,Phillipps and of bibliophile and print collecting groups, such as the Hroswitha Club of women book collectors (1944–c.
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During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 he was attached to a school at Richmond in England. Continuing with law studies, he abandoned this line of work when he came into an inheritance in 1872, allowing him to pursue his literary interests. He became a regular visitor of the Library of the Arsenal, where he joined a group of followers of the former librarian, Charles Nodier, along with the journalist Charles Monselet, writer Loredan Larchey, and author and bibliophile Paul Lacroix. He also joined the Société des Amis des Livres (founded in 1874), the first French bibliophilic association since the Société des Bibliophiles François (founded in 1820).
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Book about fencing published in Leiden by Isack Elsevier in 1619 Elzevir is the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The duodecimo series of "Elzevirs" became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles, who sought to obtain the tallest and freshest copies of these tiny books.Andrew Lang, "Elzevirs" in Books and Bookmen, Longmans, 1903; republished online as "Elzevirs", ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. Although it appears the family was involved with the book trade as early as the 16th century, it is only known for its work in some detail beginning with Lodewijk Elzevir (also called Louis).
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"Le samedi 10 mars 1736, pour la Capitation des acteurs et avec un concours prodigieux" ("Mercure de France", as quoted by Thédore de Lajarte, Bibliothèque Musicale du Théatre de l'Opéra. Catalogue Historique, Chronologique, Anecdotique, Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1878, I, p. 176, accessible for free online at Internet Archive). The performances "pour la Capitation des acteurs" were extraordinary benefit representations whose takings were intended to help artistes pay the capitation tax that applied to (almost) all French subjects (Solveig Serre, « Capitations », galas, gratis ... Les représentations exceptionnelles de l'Opéra de Paris à la fin de l'Ancien Régime.. La sortie au spectacle (XIXe-XXe siècles) : le cas français, HAL, 2010, France, ).
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In 1469, following the death of Philip the Good, he was an inventory-taker of the late Duke's library. He then produced at least eight manuscripts for Margaret of York, though Antoine de Bourgogne became his main client. Like his contemporaries Jean Miélot and Colard Mansion, he seems to have run an atelier or workshop coordinating the various functions of producing deluxe manuscripts for the bibliophiles of the court circle. Despite being "one of the most studied Flemish scribes of (the period)", his personal role in producing many of the manuscripts signed by him remains uncertain; for example it is unclear whether, like Miélot and Mansion, he did the translations himself.
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Over time, book-collecting and the state of one's books became seen as indicators of elite culture. During the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century, bibliophiles put considerable effort towards making a book "as clean as when it emerged from the printing press" through processes such as washing the pages. Efforts could even include cutting out and replacing entire pages where a previous owner had made notes in the margins. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many collectors accepted the practice of making up a complete copy of a book by combining leaves from various copies, usually of the same edition, to replace damaged or missing pages.
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John Dryden (1631-1700) The early 20th century ushered in a heyday of American book collecting. William Andrews Clark, Jr., along with other wealthy bibliophiles such as J. Paul Getty, Henry E. Huntington and Henry Clay Folger, first began forming his library during this period. Initially, Clark collected a broad array of English imprints. His library included the four Shakespeare folios; important editions of Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Byron, Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson; works illustrated by George Cruikshank and William Blake; French literature from Pierre de Ronsard to Émile Zola; autograph letters and manuscripts by authors, statesmen, and musicians; and materials relating to the exploration of the American West.
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Several decisive elements were the collection of Benito Soto poetry, the publishing house of Galician Bibliophiles and the weekly bilingual edition of the cosmopolitan newspaper "The Night". The key piece in the recovery of the written use of Galician was the creation of the Editorial Galaxia in 1950. Its main promoters, Ramón Otero Pedrayo, Francisco Fernández of Riego and others, once again demonstrated the validity of the Galician language for any genre or theme. Galacia became the centerpiece of several published periodicals: "The Economic Magazine of Galicia", the magazine of culture and art "Atlántida" and the journal of thought "Grial," were prohibited one year following its emergence.
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He studied in Paris with much success and was then placed by a bookseller to learn the trade. Fascinated from childhood by books, he acquired in a short time all the necessary knowledge and was admitted in 1698 in the guild of booksellers. He opened rue Saint-Jacques, under the banner Phénix, a store that soon became the meeting place for bibliophiles of the capital. Eager of literary anecdotes, he would forward them to Jacques Bernard, who then wrote in Holland the Nouvelles de la république des lettres, and he formed at the same time for his personal use, collections which were very useful to him.
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Gabriel Mourey was born 23 September 1865 in Marseille, the son of Louis- Félix Mourey, a druggist, and Amélie-Madeleine Roche-Latilla.Dossier cote LH 19800035/561/63905, Archives nationales de France. He began his career as a poet at the age of seventeen with the collection Voix éparses (1883) published in the Librairie des bibliophiles by Jules Rouam (Paris).Notice du Catalogue général de la BnF, online. In March 1884, he launched Mireille, revue des poètes marseillais, with Raoul Russel, which had eight deliveries. For the Parisian publisher Camille Dalou, he published his first translation from English, the Poésies complètes de Edgar Allan Poe (1889) with a preface by Joséphin Péladan; He subsequently translated poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Picture, possibly by Charles Nahl, of "Joaquín Murieta, The California Bandit", from the rarest book of the Zamorano 80, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, 1854 The Zamorano Eighty is a list of books intended to represent the most significant early volumes published on the history of California. It was compiled in 1945 by members of the Zamorano Club, a Los Angeles-based group of bibliophiles. Collecting first editions of every volume on the list has become the goal of a number of book collectors, though to date only four people have completed the task. The Zamorano Club was founded in 1928 and named for Agustín Vicente Zamorano, the first printer in California.
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The Rare Books and Special Collections Library’s collections were built largely through the acquisition or donation of the private libraries of several collectors, among them K.A.C. Creswell, Max Debbane, Labib Habachi, and Selim Hassan. Their chief areas of interest - Islamic art and architecture, Egyptology, and travel literature - make up the core of the Library's collections. In addition to the collectors above, the Library has acquired works from scholars and bibliophiles like Mahmoud Saba, Esmat Allouba, Constant DeWitt, Charles Issawi, and Charles Hedlund, Charles Faltas, Muhammad Shawqi Mustafa, and Fr. Pierre Riches. In recent years, the Library has received the libraries of public figures, such as Anis Mansour"سلامة يشكر أسرة أنيس منصور بعد اهدائها مكتبته الخاصة", alnaharegypt.
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Ferri was a member of the national council of the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF, Rally of the French People), a coalition that included the PRL. In November 1947 Ferri was elected municipal councilor of Paris and general counsel of the Seine on the PRL platform. He was one of nine PRL councilors. From 1947 he was chairman of the Budget Committee of the city of Paris, and from 1950 was deputy chairman of the city council. In 1950 Ferri was a committee member of Les Bibliophiles de France. Ferri ran successfully for election to the legislature for the 2nd district of the Seine on 17 June 1951 on the RPF platform.
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Bibliophiles pore over books at the annual Regent Book Sale As it is run by a charitable trust, the theatre relies on the support of the local community for its continued existence. A major part of this support is the Regent 24-hour Book Sale, the largest sale of second-hand books in New Zealand, and reputedly the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Every May since 1979, books donated by the general public are sold at the theatre by volunteers over the course of 24 hours. Over 200,000 books are on sale each year, most of them priced at NZ$1 each (although a smaller number of specialist books are on sale at a higher price).
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He was appointed librarian at the Académie des inscriptions (1788) and member of the French Academy of Sciences (1788). In November 1790, he belonged to the Committee on Monuments (Letters section) and in 1791, he was at the service of the . From January 1795, he worked as an employee of the temporary committee of the Arts to establish the catalogs of confiscated libraries. He is a well- known figure among bibliophiles, as well as his two sons, Jean Jacques Debure and Marie Jean Debure, for the excellency of their catalogs among which those of the libraries of duke of La Vallière, Loménie de Brienne, Pierre Paul Louis Randon de Boisset, Louis Marie d'Aumont and Baron d'Holbach.
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Gelenius translated Erasmus's Moriae, as well as works by Petrarch and Cicero into Czech."viaLibri Resources for Bibliophiles" For Froben he edited Ammianus Marcellinus and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1533), the Historia Miscella (1535, published under the title Eutropii insigne volumen), the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder (1539, revised 1545) and the works of Tertullian (1539, collaborating with Beatus Rhenanus), along with many other works. All those listed were published after Froben's death by the partnership of his son Hieronymus and son-in-law Nikolaus Episcopius. The edition of the Periplus was full of errors which were not corrected until the 10th century Heidelberg manuscript was returned to Heidelberg in 1816.
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The genesis of the formation regarding the book collection dates 1970s. At that time there was no specific reasoning behind it, and the books acquired during that period were of a varied content of subjects: historical, literary and encyclopedic. However, from the middle of that decade, through associating with the people of the world of books – such as Maria Koutarelli, who inherited and accrued the collection of books and manuscripts of Spyros Loverdos – the bibliophilic interests of Konstantinos Staikos changed radically. In those years also, the Hellenic Bibliophile Society was established, founding members of which were eminent personalities of the intellect and the arts, bibliophiles and collectors, under the Honorary Presidency of Constantinos Tsatsos.
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The magazine contains many articles about rare books, published both in Russia and abroad, unique historical documents, reviews of the results of Moscow auctions and the trading of Russian books at European and USA antiquarian bookselling fairs, "bibliophile travelling" to different cities of the world (Odessa, Firenze, Berlin, Paris, Genève, London, Ottawa, Barcelona). Genres such as "portraits of bibliophiles and old-time books admirers" are also reflected in the pages of the magazine: an interview with the literary critic and bibliographer L. Turchinsky, the French bibliophile Renne Gera, the graphic artist D. Bekker, the outstanding Russian mathematician, famous bibliophile M. Bashmakov,There are always books that continue to be miracles. An interview with M. Bashmakov Pro Knigi — 2013. — № 3.
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For that, in 1767 (at the Repnin Sejm) he was arrested by Russian ambassador Nicholas Repnin, and until 1773 he was imprisoned in Kaluga, Russia. The greatest passion of Załuski's brothers was books. Together with his brother Andrzej Stanisław Załuski (1695–1758, bishop of Kraków and crown chancellor) he obtained the collections of such previous Polish bibliophiles as Jakub Zadzik, Krzysztof Opaliński, Tomasz Ujejski, Janusz Wiśniowiecki, Jerzy Mniszech and Jan III Sobieski. From the 1730s they planned the creation of a library and in 1747 the brothers founded the Załuski's Library (Biblioteka Załuskich), considered to be the first Polish public library and one of the largest libraries in the world at the time.
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Members of the partnership are involved in the work of more than 10 bibliophile clubs located at various cities of Russia, Ukraine and Israel, where they are engaged in the research activities in the area of theory and history of rare books. In Moscow the club “Bibliophilic Hive” () (Hosted by M.V.Seslavinsky) is in active operation. The subject matters of the meetings are dedicated to the history of Russian bibliophilia (including outstanding book collections of the past), art of the book and book cover.Bibliophilia as a passion. Radio Svoboda programme from the cycle “Myths and reality” by Ivan TolstoyThe artist’s book at the Christie’s auction Among the permanent participants of the meetings, apart from the bibliophiles, are representatives of libraries and museums, antique traders and collectors.
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Finding Aid for the Rounce & Coffin Club papers created by the Clark Memorial Library. Accessed 25 February 2012 This club was created as a less formal alternative to the Zamorano Club, where other bibliophiles gathered in Los Angeles, and to which he was later welcomed in 1934. The following year, he established the Ward Ritchie Press, through which he published thousands of books, over 750 designed by himself; his output included works by poets Robinson Jeffers, Carl Sandburg, Archibald MacLeish, Carlyle MacIntyre, librarian Lawrence Clark Powell, novelist Alexandre Dumas, and many others. In 1983, Ritchie became romantically involved with film actress Gloria Stuart, who was inspired by him to design her own hand-printed books under the imprimatur Imprenta Glorias.
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In 1984 Italo Calvino wrote an essay on it, which can be found in Collezione di sabbia (Sand Collection) by Mondadori. The French choreographer Philippe Decouflé was inspired by it. Douglas Hofstadter wrote about it at length. In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning hidden behind the script of the Codex, which is asemic; that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the reader is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.
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The New York Public Library also has four research libraries, which are also open to the general public. The library, officially chartered as The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, was developed in the 19th century, founded from an amalgamation of grass-roots libraries and social libraries of bibliophiles and the wealthy, aided by the philanthropy of the wealthiest Americans of their age. The "New York Public Library" name may also refer to its Main Branch, which is easily recognizable by its lion statues named Patience and Fortitude that sit either side of the entrance. The branch was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and designated a New York City Landmark in 1967.
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Al-Jāḥiẓ was said to have admired the eloquent literary style of the director of the library, Sahl ibn Hārūn (d. 859/860) and quoted his works. Because of the caliphs' patronage and his eagerness to establish himself and reach a wider audience, al-Jāḥiẓ stayed in Baghdad. Al-Nadīm gives two versions of an anecdote which differ in their source: his first source is Abū Hiffān and his second is the grammarian al- Mubarrad, and retells the story of al-Jāḥiẓ's reputation for being one of the three great bibliophiles and scholarsthe two others being al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān and judge Ismā’īl ibn Isḥāq such that “whenever a book came into the hand of al-Jāḥiẓ he read through it, wherever he happened to be.
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For the history of the bishopric of Carpentras, see Ancient Diocese of Carpentras. At the beginning of the Avignon Papacy, Pope Clement V took up residence, along with the Roman Curia, in Carpentras in 1313. It was his successor Pope John XXII who settled definitively at Avignon. Joseph- Dominique d'Inguimbert, Bishop of Carpentras from 1735 to 1754, established a great scholarly library which Jean-François Delmas, the chief librarian as of 2009, has called "the oldest of our municipal libraries"; known as the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine and now holding around 140,000 books, it is known to bibliophiles all over France and is scheduled to move into roomier quarters in the former Hôtel-Dieu in 2013.Thomas Wieder, "Un cabinet de curiosités à Carpentras," Le Monde des Livres, August 13, 2009.
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He also wrote a comedy Les divertissements du Temps ou la Magie de Mascarille and another play, Les amours de Merlin en 1671,Henri Liebrecht, Histoire du théâtre français à Bruxelles au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique, 1923, p.63. although some sources date the plays in 1691 and attribute them to his son Claude.Wolfgang Leiner, Horizons européens de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle: l'Europe, lieu d'échanges culturels? : la circulation des œuvres et des jugements au XVIIe siècle, G. Narr, 1988, p.298. (father and son sharing the same nickname, this is a great source of confusionMohamed Samy Djelassi (Éd.), Rosidor, Les valets de chambre nouvellistes: comédie inédite en cinq actes et en prose, écrite à Stockholm vers 1701, Volume 1, Uppsala universitet, 1988, p.
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He found sympathetic souls in two Ch'ing > dynasty bibliophiles and translated their charming essays on the subject of > book collecting under the titles "Bookman's Decalogue" and "Bookman's > Manual." After coming to the United States he began to acquire a library of > Western books and soon was as well known to Boston antiquarian dealers as he > had been in Peking's Liu-li ch'ang. His interests were catholic: Latin and > Greek literature (two complete sets of the Loeb Classics, acquired one title > at a time over the years, all used or damaged remainders), a complete > Patrology in Latin, works on philosophy and literature ancient and modern. > He pursued congenial writers relentlessly: everything by George Saintsbury, > all of Virginia Woolf in first editions, everything in print by or about > Pound and Joyce.
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A former Malian presidential aide, as well as several other people involved with preserving the manuscripts, said that the documents had been evacuated into a safe location in 2012 before the fighters invaded Timbuktu. U.S. based book preservation expert Stephanie Diakité and Dr. Abdel Kader Haidara, curator of one of the most important libraries of Timbuktu, a position handed down in his family for generations, organized the evacuation of the manuscripts to Bamako in the south of Mali. Timbuktu has a long tradition of celebrating and honoring family manuscript collections. It is traditional for a family member to “swear publicly that he will protect the library for as long as he lives.” Yochi Dreazen, “The Brazen Bibliophiles of Timbuktu: How a Team of Sneaky Librarians Duped Al Qaeda and Saved Some of the Ancient World’s Greatest Artifacts,” The New Republic (April 2013), 34.
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He was first identified by Winkler in 1921; his name is derived from one of his most elevated patrons, Anthony of Burgundy, Philip the Good's illegitimate son, though he also worked for the Dukes and other bibliophiles in Burgundian court circles, who had already been allocated "Masters" by art historians. His contributions to the heavily illustrated Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6) from the early 1470s, on which several of the leading illuminators of the day worked, show him excelling some more famous names, like Loiset Lyédet. The young Master of the Dresden Prayer Book worked as his assistant on this book, suggesting he was an apprentice; a number of other anonymous masters have been postulated as his pupils.In particular the "Master of the London Wavrin" so named in Kren & McKendrick, 276 ff.
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Raped on the Railway: a True Story of a Lady who was first ravished and then flagellated on the Scotch Express is an anonymous English pornographic story published in 1894Lee Grieveson, Peter Krämer, The Silent Cinema Reader, Routledge, 2004, , p. 59Ronald Pearsall (1969) The Worm in the Bud: the world of Victorian sexuality, Macmillan; pp. 321, 364Peter Mendes, "Clandestine erotic fiction in English, 1800-1930: a bibliographical study", Scolar Press, 1993, , p. 319Alan Norman Bold, "The Sexual Dimension in Literature", Vision Press, 1983, , pp.94,97,102Claire Preston, A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, Wiley-Blackwell, 1998, , p.688 by Charles CarringtonRachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", Modernism/modernity, vol.16, no.1 (January 2009) pp.87-104 under the imprint "Society of Bibliophiles"Peter Webb, The erotic arts, Secker & Warburg, 1975, p.
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The false writing system appears modeled on Western writing systems, with left-to-right writing in rows and an alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters, some of which double as numerals. Some letters appear only at the beginning or end of words, similar to Semitic writing systems. The curvilinear letters are rope- or thread-like, with loops and even knots, and are somewhat reminiscent of Sinhala script. In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codex's script, which is asemic; that his experience in writing it was similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults.
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They were Walter W. Stone (book publisher), Colin Berckelman (businessman), John Earnshaw (engineer), Stan Lanarch (technical officer, anthropology) and Harry Chaplin (businessman). Harry Chaplin was elected the inaugural chairman, and Colin Berckelman secretary / treasurer. Several prominent citizens and bibliophiles have also been associated with the BCSA in Sydney. These include: Sir John Alexander Ferguson (onetime president of the Royal Australian Historical Society); George Mackaness OBE (English teacher, bibliographer and BCSA president); Bill Fitz Henry (or Fitzhenry) (“The Bulletin” secretary, columnist and unofficial historian); Camden Morrisby (organising secretary of the BCSA, who hosted the Bookman program on Radio 2SM for 20 years); Eric Russell (an editor at Angus and Robertson, who also published histories of Sydney suburbs); James Meagher (lawyer, dramatist and independent Latin scholar); Graham Stone (science fiction collector), and Norman Hetherington OAM (artist, cartoonist and puppeteer).
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The political fiction of is described by Boerescu as "a multitude of sub-worlds" structured around "framework situations", moving between the "petty politics of the day" (targeting the Social Democratic Party) and ironic parables or dystopias. Boerescu writes: "The author cannot refrain from endlessly staging acts and short plays or inserting lines with an obvious dramatic hue". The same commentator identifies in the stories several allusions, homages or intertextual borrowings, from the "semiotic games" of Umberto Eco to a "landscape of luxuriant vegetation" characteristic for the Latin American Boom writers. This symbolism is coupled with allusions to Romanian literary life: the final story in the collection, Motanii din bibliotecă ("The Tomcats in the Study Hall"), speculates about the future of Gârbea's generation, and depicts bibliophiles keeping pets named after the leading literary critics of the 1980s and '90s.
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Armand Silvestre, Deux femmes pour un mari in Georges d'Heylli (dir.) Gazette anecdotique, littéraire, artistique et bibliographique, vol. 1, Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1886, p. 213.Le Temps, 5 mai 1886, exposé de l’affaire, Le Temps, 26 mai 1886, the civil court's judgement, Hippolyte-Ferréol Rivière, « Acteurs : Propriété des noms et pseudonymes », Pandectes françaises : Nouveau répertoire de doctrine, de législation et de jurisprudence, vol. 2, Paris, Chevalier-Marescq, 1887, p. 6-8, . In 1887, Cœuriot joined the Vlaamse Opera, where she would perform at least until 1888. In 1886, she performed La petite Fadette at the Théâtre du Château-d'EauLe Temps, 3 août 1886, Château d’eau, La petite Fadette, and at the Opéra-PopulaireLe Temps, 1 juillet 1887, Opéra Populaire, La petite Fadette, in 1887.Both these names refer to the Alhambra (Paris) of the 20th century, which was demolished in 1967.
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Nevertheless, such books as Le Miroir du Monde (The Mirror of the World) or L'ombrelle – le gant – le manchon (The Sunshade, Muff, and Glove) received negative reviews from some newspapers for Avril's illustrations. In contrast to most bibliophiles of his time, Uzanne was chiefly interested in the creation of new, luxurious bibliophile works, collaborating closely with printers, binders, typographers and artists (especially the Symbolists and early Art Nouveau artists). Among them were such painters as James McNeill Whistler, Adolphe Lalauze and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly—who wrote the preface of Le bric-à-brac de l'amour (1879)—, the writer Jean Lorrain, and jewellery artists and exponents of Japonisme such as Henri Vever. One of the main artists collaborating with Uzanne was the Belgian Félicien Rops, who illustrated some of his books and created the cover illustration for Le Livre Moderne, and who called Uzanne "the Bibliophile's dream".
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However, as a result of strict censorship under Napoleon, many banned books were destroyed. In the Bibliothèque nationale particularly notable books were first separated from the general library in 1795, and the foundations of the later Réserve (Rare Books collections) was established. Between 1836 and 1844, the concept (not the press mark) "Enfer" appeared for the first time in the library inventories for morally dubious writings. The library director, Joseph Naudet, characterized these works as follows: "fort mauvais, mais quelquefois très précieux pour les bibliophiles, et de grande valeur vénale; cet enfer est pour les imprimés ce qu'est le Musée de Naples pour les antiques." ("extremely reprehensible from a book collector’s view but sometimes highly valuable and of great resale value; this hell is for the pamphlets, what the Napels Museum is for ancient art.").Marie-Françoise Quignard, Raymond-Josué Seckel: L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque.
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The success of the production allowed Schmied to expand his operations, purchase a Stanhope handpress, and hire a group of craftsmen who helped Schmied execute some of his most famous and pioneering works such as Les Climats (1924), Daphne (1924), and Le Cantique des Cantiques (1925). Schmied books were very expensive to produce and were always printed in a very limited edition, usually numbering no more than 100-200 copies. His marketing strategy was to display sheets of his work in progress at an annual Parisian art fair and seek out the subscription of wealthy bibliophiles and other interested organizations. During the "Roaring 20s" it was not difficult to find suitable patrons, but with the onset of The Great Depression, the economic climate could no longer support Schmied's expensive projects and eventually he was forced to sell off virtually all his assets and close down his shop.
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Charlie Lovett was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1962. He got a B.A. in theatre at Davidson College in 1984 and then went into the antiquarian book business and became interested in the works of Lewis Carroll.Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Authors: Charlie Lovett Pioneer Drama Service He got a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1997.Novelist, playwright Charlie Lovett to speak at FOL meeting on July 27 Ashe County Line, July 21, 2019 In 2003 he became a member of the Grolier Club the oldest and largest club for bibliophiles in North America.Authors: Charlie Lovet Penguin Random House Two of his books draw on his own experience as an antiquarian bibliophile: The Bookman’s Tale and First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen. The Bookman’s Tale made the New York Times best seller list.
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Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had immigrated from Cento, Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825). Isaac received much of his education in Leiden. At the age of 16, he began his literary career with some verses addressed to Samuel Johnson. He became a frequent guest at the table of the publisher John Murray and became one of the noted bibliophiles of the time. On 10 February 1802, D'Israeli married Maria Basevi (1774/5–1847), who came from another London merchant family of Italian-Jewish extraction. The marriage was a happy one, producing five children: Sarah ("Sa"; 1802–1859); Benjamin ("Ben" or "Dizzy"; 1804–1881); Naphtali (b. 1807, died in infancy); Raphael ("Ralph"; 1809–1898); and Jacobus ("James" or "Jem"; 1813–1868). The children were named according to Jewish customs and the boys were all circumcised.
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Vogel "House of the Kings" today (ul. Daniłowiczowska 14, corner of ul. Hipoteczna 2, Warsaw) The Załuski brothers' greatest passion was books. Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother Andrzej Stanisław Załuski acquired the collections of earlier Polish bibliophiles such as Jakub Zadzik, Krzysztof Opaliński, Tomasz Ujejski, Janusz Wiśniowiecki, Jerzy Mniszech and Jan III Sobieski (the latter, from his granddaughter, Maria Karolina Sobieska). From the 1730s the brothers planned the creation of a library, and in 1747 they founded the Załuski Library (Biblioteka Załuskich). Located in the 17th-century Daniłowicz Palace in Warsaw (built for Mikołaj Daniłowicz of Żurów), the library building had two stories (the large reading room was on the second floor) and was topped with a small tower containing an astronomical observatory. The building's reconstruction in rococo style was accomplished in 1745 by Francesco Antonio Melana and his brother. The Załuski Library was considered the first Polish public library and one of the largest libraries in the contemporary world.
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The principle of subscription publishing – that is, of funding the publication of a volume by securing multiple advance subscriptions from individuals interested in buying the final product – was first established in the 17th century, and routinely adopted during the 18th. The idea of extending the model to the membership of a society was initiated by the Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812 as a convivial association of bibliophiles, but which rapidly introduced the principle that each member should sponsor the publication of an edition of a rare work of interest to members, and that other volumes would be published by the Club collectively. In both cases, the volumes were intended for distribution to the entire membership. The Club's first publication, donated by Sir William Bolland and issued in 1814, was the Earl of Surrey's translation of parts of Virgil's Aeneid, originally printed in 1557. One early Roxburghe Club member (from 1822) was Sir Walter Scott, who was inspired by it to establish the Bannatyne Club to print works of interest for Scottish tradition, literature, and history.
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Wilhelm Schlegel advised Cicognara on his magnum opus, the Storia della scultura dal suo risorgimento in Italia al secolo di Napoleone, The book was designed to complete the works of Winckelmann and D'Agincourt and is illustrated with 180 plates. In 1814, after the fall of Napoleon, Cicognara was patronized by Francis I of Austria, and between 1815 and 1820 published, under the auspices of that sovereign, his Fabbriche più cospicue di Venezia, two folios, containing some 150 plates. Charged by the Venetians with the presentation of their gifts to the Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria at Vienna, Cicognara added to the offering an illustrated catalogue of the objects it comprised; this book, Omaggio delle Provincie Venete alla maestri Carolina Augusta, has since become of great value to bibliophiles. The other works by Cicognara are the Memorie storiche de litterati ed artisti Ferraresi (1811); the Vite de' più insigni pittori e scultori Ferraresi, MS.; the Memorie spettanti alla storia della calcografia (1831); and a large number of dissertations on painting, sculpture, engraving and other kindred subjects.
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