Description
This edition adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations; corrects and brings up to date the entries of the work of others; and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality thanks to worldwide medical and economic concerns
Author: Sidney E. Berger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 01/16/2023
Pages: 574
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.54lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.25d
ISBN13: 9781538151327
ISBN10: 1538151324
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science | General
- Antiques & Collectibles | Books
- Reference | Dictionaries
About the Author
Sidney E. Berger was the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem; he is now that library's Director Emeritus. For the past 18 years he has been on the faculties of Simmons University and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, teaching rare-book classes in both institutions' library schools. He was also Curator of Printed Books and then Curator of Manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, and he headed the Special Collections Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is widely published in several fields, and his book Rare Books and Specials Collections won the 2015 ABC-CLIO/American Library Association award for the Best Book in Library Literature. He makes paper and casts type by hand, and he is the proprietor of the Doe Press, publishing short texts from handset types, printed on a handpress.