Book madness. A story of book collectors in America.

Autor/in	Gigante, Denise
Titel	Book madness. A story of book collectors in America.
Quelle	New Haven: Yale University Press (2022), xviii, 378 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monografie
ISBN	978-0-300-24848-7; 978-0-300-26521-7
DOI	10.12987/9780300265217
Schlagwörter	Geschichte (Histor); Geschichtsdarstellung; Buchmarkt; Verkaufen; Bibliophilie; Bibliothek; Lamb, Charles; USA
Abstract	"The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848-- Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends-caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America-booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen-Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries."
Erfasst von	Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Update	2025/3