Category Archives: Books
Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates
Martin Hopkinson’s Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates is a wonderful little book that provides a brief, illustrated history of bookplates, also known as ex libris, a Latin phrase meaning … Continue reading
Books as Artifacts, or Another Reason Why Printed Books Matter
It’s finally time to brush the dust off this neglected blog and put it back to work. Blogging fell by the wayside last semester when, in the midst of the … Continue reading
The Spoils of the Book Fair
If you were at the fair yesterday, you would have seen old postcards and trading cards, manuscripts and maps, posters and prints, ephemera of all sorts, and of course lots … Continue reading
Don’t Miss: Albany’s 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair
The 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair, presented by the Albany Institute of History & Art, will be held at the Washington Avenue Armory at 195 Washington Avenue in … Continue reading
A Brief Publishing History of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf (image from George Charles Beresford [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) The first written assignment for IST 655: Rare Books was to research the publishing history of a major … Continue reading
The Mount and the Restoration of Edith Wharton’s Library
I recently spend a day at The Mount, which was once the estate and gardens of Edith Wharton, prolific twentieth-century writer of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, … Continue reading
I want to take a real book to bed with me, not an electronic device.
I covet books as objects. The physical details are what distinguish a must-have edition from today’s typical mass market paperback. These could include: a striking cover design, original artwork, aged … Continue reading
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