The Resource Book madness : a story of book collectors in America, Denise Gigante
Book madness : a story of book collectors in America, Denise Gigante
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The item Book madness : a story of book collectors in America, Denise Gigante represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 378 pages
- Contents
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- Bookmen across the Atlantic: Charles Lamb's book on Broadway
- The literary world: publishers, editors, journalists 66
- New York Shakespeareans: bardomania, testimonials, and gift exchange
- Boston antiquarians: AAmerican history, bibliography, and bibliomania
- Educating America: the dream of a great public library
- Isbn
- 9780300248487
- Label
- Book madness : a story of book collectors in America
- Title
- Book madness
- Title remainder
- a story of book collectors in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Denise Gigante
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gigante, Denise
- Dewey number
- 002.0750973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Z987.5.U6
- LC item number
- G54 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lamb, Charles
- Book collecting
- Book collectors
- Label
- Book madness : a story of book collectors in America, Denise Gigante
- Bar code
-
- 31223137860541
- 31223137860533
- 31223902317651
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Bookmen across the Atlantic: Charles Lamb's book on Broadway -- The literary world: publishers, editors, journalists 66 -- New York Shakespeareans: bardomania, testimonials, and gift exchange -- Boston antiquarians: AAmerican history, bibliography, and bibliomania -- Educating America: the dream of a great public library
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 378 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300248487
- Lccn
- 2021914124
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1309867367
- Label
- Book madness : a story of book collectors in America, Denise Gigante
- Bar code
-
- 31223137860541
- 31223137860533
- 31223902317651
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Bookmen across the Atlantic: Charles Lamb's book on Broadway -- The literary world: publishers, editors, journalists 66 -- New York Shakespeareans: bardomania, testimonials, and gift exchange -- Boston antiquarians: AAmerican history, bibliography, and bibliomania -- Educating America: the dream of a great public library
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 378 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300248487
- Lccn
- 2021914124
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1309867367
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