Address and Poem Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, at the Dedication of Their New Rooms, Jan. 3, 1848
Title | Address and Poem Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, at the Dedication of Their New Rooms, Jan. 3, 1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1848 |
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Book Madness
Title | Book Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Gigante |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2022-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300265212 |
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.
A Poem Spoken Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, January 3, 1848
Title | A Poem Spoken Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, January 3, 1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Augustus Dix |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1848 |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
ISBN |
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Title | Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston PDF eBook |
Author | Boston Public Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Title | Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston PDF eBook |
Author | Boston Public Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
ISBN |
An Address Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association. (A Poem, Etc.).
Title | An Address Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association. (A Poem, Etc.). PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel N. HASKELL |
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Pages | |
Release | 1848 |
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