Ronald B. McKerrow, An introduction to bibliography for literary students -- 1989 : the director travels -- Franklin on stage -- Twenty-five years on : personal reminiscences -- The Collard bequest -- A personal miscellany -- Subject bibliography : literature in English -- Charles Darwin : some bibliographical problems and textual implications -- Terra Australis incognita : the exile narratives -- Galileo and scientific epistolography in the late Renaissance -- A man under fire : Henry Vizetelly and the question of obscenity in Victorian England -- Literary forgery and mystifications : causes and effects -- The elixir of life : Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and literary London -- Thoreau MacDonald -- From Capell to Tanselle : bibliography and humanities scholarship -- The case of the cabinet connoisseur, or, The concept of special collections -- Embracing the flood : questions about collecting twentieth-century non-literary works -- The two Jameses : Edwards and Lackington and the development of antiquarian bookselling in Great Britain -- The Stillman Drake Galileo Collection -- The antiquarian book trade in Britain 1695-1830 : the use of auction and booksellers' catalogues -- Was William Morris really a pre-Raphaelite? -- The library of King George III -- Two collectors : Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackney -- The Hannah Collection in the history of medicine and related sciences -- Who owned it and why it matters : provenance.
Summary:
"A collection of essays on bibliography, book history, book collecting, and the antiquarian book trade by Richard Landon. Also includes autobiographical essays"-- Provided by publisher.
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