The Book as an object
Historical lessons from a Rare Book School course
Bibliographic description is a necessary skill for book collectors. Oxford University’s Colin Franklin book collecting prize, for which I entered my collection on Austro-Hungarian history and my collection of religious liturgical books — I didn’t win either time, though my collections received the compliments of the jury — requires a descriptive bibliog…
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