Auction catalogue, books of Signet Library, 31 May to 1 June 1962
Title | Auction catalogue, books of Signet Library, 31 May to 1 June 1962 PDF eBook |
Author | Dowell's (Edinburgh). |
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Release | 1962 |
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English Book Collectors
Title | English Book Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | William Younger Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Book collectors |
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Commentaries on the Laws of England
Title | Commentaries on the Laws of England PDF eBook |
Author | William Blackstone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 1809 |
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A Century of Artists Books
Title | A Century of Artists Books PDF eBook |
Author | Riva Castleman |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780810961814 |
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Catalogue of the ... Library of ... Valuable Books & Manuscripts the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney
Title | Catalogue of the ... Library of ... Valuable Books & Manuscripts the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney PDF eBook |
Author | William Amhurst Thyssen Amherst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Bookbinding |
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Non-Dewey decimal classified titles
Title | American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Non-Dewey decimal classified titles PDF eBook |
Author | R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1408 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | United States |
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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Title | Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Devoney Looser |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801887054 |
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.