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Revolution and the Antiquarian Book
Reshaping the Past, 1780 1815
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107687837
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.10.2013
Seiten:
330
Autor:
Kristian Jensen
Gewicht:
572 g
Format:
244x170x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kristian Jensen is currently Head of British Collections at the British Library. He is also the author of Incunabula and their Readers: Printing, Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century (2003). He was elected Lyell Reader at the University of Oxford for 2008, and this book is based on his Lyell Lectures.
Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.
Introduction; 1. Enlightenment ideas and revolutionary practice: incunabula and freedom; 2. Aristocratic aspirations and the war-time market: competing for the past and the future; 3. An object-based discipline emerges: old books, new luxury; 4. Competing for authority. 'The insolence of English wealth'; 5. Commemorating and obliterating the past: 'old books, very displeasing to the eye'; 6. Conclusion.