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The Book Collector is a London -based journal that deals with all aspects of the book. [ 1] It is published quarterly and exists in both paper and digital form. It prints independent opinions on subjects ranging from typography to national heritage policy, from medieval libraries to modern first editions.
The Colophon, subtitled A Book Collectors' Quarterly or A quarterly for booklovers, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun late in 1929 and continuing in various guises until 1950. It was the brainchild of Elmer Adler (1884–1962), founder of Pynson Printers of New York City. His idea was that various printers around the world would ...
His first professional position was at the New York Public Library from 1930 to 1934 as bibliographer for the Spencer Collection. He worked from 1934 to 1937 at the Pierpont Morgan Library with Belle da Costa Greene . Hofer returned to Harvard in 1938 to assume the new position of curator of printing and graphic arts created for him by library ...
Nicolas Barker. Nicolas John Barker OBE FBA FSA (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books. [2][3] He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992. Barker was editor of The Book Collector from 1965-2016 [4] and edited The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the Book Collector, an Anthology. [5]
John Waynflete Carter (10 May 1905 – 18 March 1975) was an English writer, diplomat, bibliographer, book-collector, antiquarian bookseller and president of the Bibliographical Society in 1968. [ 1] He was recognised as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. [ 2] He was the great-grandson of Canon T. T. Carter.
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and a person who collects books is often called a bibliophile but can also ...
The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, and that of Miranda ...
PZ7.G8233 Pap 2008. Paper Towns is a novel written by John Green, published on October 16, 2008, by Dutton Books. [2] The novel is about the coming-of-age of the protagonist, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his search for Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and childhood crush. During his search, Quentin and his friends Ben, Radar, and Lacey discover ...