Catalogue of a Varied Collection of Scarce and Interesting Books Interspersed with Many Curious Prints, Old American Maps and Views, Ex-libris Book-plates, and Other Items, Suitable for the Collector...
Title | Catalogue of a Varied Collection of Scarce and Interesting Books Interspersed with Many Curious Prints, Old American Maps and Views, Ex-libris Book-plates, and Other Items, Suitable for the Collector... PDF eBook |
Author | H. Seers (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Antiquarian booksellers |
ISBN |
A Catalogue of an Interesting Collection of Old and Scarce Books
Title | A Catalogue of an Interesting Collection of Old and Scarce Books PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Baldwin (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Booksellers' catalogs |
ISBN |
American Book-plates
Title | American Book-plates PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dexter Allen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Bookplates |
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A Catalogue of the Most Curious, Interesting & Valuable Library of Rare Printed Books and Unpublished Manuscripts, Relating to the United States, Ever Offered for Sale ...
Title | A Catalogue of the Most Curious, Interesting & Valuable Library of Rare Printed Books and Unpublished Manuscripts, Relating to the United States, Ever Offered for Sale ... PDF eBook |
Author | Howe, Leonard & Co |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Book for All Readers
Title | A Book for All Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Ainsworth Rand Spofford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
English Book Collectors
Title | English Book Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | William Younger Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Book collectors |
ISBN |
Fantasies of the Library
Title | Fantasies of the Library PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Sophie Springer |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 026253617X |
A book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process. Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas—as a platform of the future. One essay occupies the right-hand page of a two-page spread while interviews scrolls independently on the left. Bibliophilic artworks intersect both throughout the book-as-exhibition. A photo essay, “Reading Rooms Reading Machines” further interrupts the book in order to display images of libraries (old and new, real and imagined), and readers (human and machine) and features work by artists including Kader Atta, Wafaa Bilal, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, and others. The book includes an essay on the institutional ordering principles of book collections; a conversation with the proprietors of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive; and a dialogue with a new media theorist about experiments at the intersection of curatorial practice and open source ebooks. The reader emerges from this book-as-exhibition with the growing conviction that the library is not only a curatorial space but a bibliological imaginary, ripe for the exploration of consequential paginated affairs. The physicality of the book—and this book—“resists the digital,” argues coeditor Etienne Turpin, “but not in a nostalgic way.” Contributors Erin Kissane, Hammad Nasar, Megan Shaw Prelinger, Rick Prelinger, Anna-Sophie Springer, Charles Stankievech, Katharina Tauer, Etienne Turpin, Andrew Norman Wilson, Joanna Zylinska