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03077aam a2200409 i 4500 001 B9CA0378C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 003 SILO 005 20181003010030 008 180228t20182018enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018003779 020 $a 1108428320 020 $a 9781108428323 035 $a (OCoLC)1021215196 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d FSJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a Z1029 M35 2018 100 1 $a McKitterick, David, $e author. 245 14 $a The invention of rare books : $b private interest and public memory, 1600-1840 / $c David McKitterick. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xii, 450 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the principal means of memory, this process also created particular kinds of remembering. Taking a European perspective, McKitterick looks at these interests as they developed from being matters of largely private concern and curiosity, to the larger public and national responsibilities of the first half of the nineteenth century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. Inventio; 2. Books as objects; 3. Survival and selection; 4. Choosing books in Baroque Europe; 5. External appearances (1); 6. External appearances (2); 7. Printers and readers; 8. A seventeenth-century revolution; 9. Concepts of rarity; 10. Developing measures of rarity; 11. Judging appearances by modern standards; 12. The Harleian sales; 13. Authority and rarity; 14. Rarity established; 15. The French bibliographical revolution; 16. Books in turmoil; 17. Bibliophile traditions; 18. Fresh foundations; 19. Public faces, public responsibilities; 20. Conclusion. 650 0 $a Rare books $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Rare books $z Europe $x History. $x Methodology $x History. 650 0 $a Book collecting $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Book collectors $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Libraries $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Europe $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Europe $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041822.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212015329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9CA0378C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search