The Literary Collector Vol 1

Excerpt from The Literary Collector, Vol. 1: A Monthly Magazine of Book-Lore and Bibliography; July 1905-December 1905 May 3, 4 and 5, 1898. During my residence in Augusta we were near neighbors, members of the same lodge and attended the same church. We were also members of the Kennebec Historical Society, and at one of the meetings of that society Mr. Blanchard read a paper on Incunabula - or cradle books, as they are called - the earliest printed books after the invention of printing from movable type. This paper was a revelation to me from its knowl edge of bibliography and early printing. Yet during our long acquaintance I did not know that he was a collector of books. I never knew of but one man who ever saw his library, and he was an old army comrade who hardly knew one book from another. He had called to see Mr. Blanchard while he was con fined to his house by illness and he had invited him into his library room. He told me that he never saw so many books in one house in his life and that they were piled to the ceiling. This library was a cele brated one for first editions of American authors, for its wealth of Hawthornes, Whittiers, Lowells, Long fellows, and the first English editions of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Kipling, Stevenson; with the Grolier Club and Kelmscott Press books, privately printed and rare editions, with a fine collection of books on bibliography, art, porcelains, pottery, books on vellum and rare local histories. The cata logue embraced lots representing about volumes. In it were 62 Hawthornes, including Fanshawe, the record price of which is $637, and 19 first editions; 60 Longfellows, including 29 first editions; 19 Lowells, including four first editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Curiosities of Literature is a three volume anthology gathered by British scholar Isaac D'Israeli. The work contains countless anecdotes about historical persons and events, unusual books, and the habits of book-collectors. It offers a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote.

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form - the little magazine - and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the little magazine has long been regarded as the preserve of modernist avant-gardes and elite artistic coteries, for whom it served as a form of resistance to mass media, MacLeod's detailed study of its origins paints a different picture. Combining cultural, textual, literary, and media studies criticism, MacLeod demonstrates how the little magazine was deeply connected to the artistic, social, political, and cultural interests of a rising professional-managerial class. She offers a richly contextualized analysis of the little magazine's position in the broader media landscape: namely, its relationship to old and new media, including pre-industrial print forms, newspapers, mass-market magazines, fine press books, and posters. MacLeod's study challenges conventional understandings of the little magazine as a genre and emphasizes the power of "little" media in a mass-market context.

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