Chester W. Topp. Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks. Vol. 3, John Camden Hotten and Chatto & Windus, Chapman and Hall; Vol. 4, Frederick Warne & Co., Sampson Low & Co. Denver, Colo.: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1997-1999. ISBN 0963392026 (v.3) 0963392034 (v.4). US$150 each. Readers of Biblionews do not need to be reminded that 'bibliography' can mean … Continue reading Book Review
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Megan L Benton, Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 323. ISBN 0-300-08213-4. Professor Megan L. Benton of the Pacific Lutheran University in the USA has taken as her topic the boom in fine print editions in the USA in the fifteen years after … Continue reading Book Review
London/New York: Doubleday, 417pp, 15 pounds/$45 Australian. ISBN 0385 603681 John Baxter’s delightful A Pound of Paper is a combination of autobiography and exposition of bibliomania. Baxter has had a fascinating life from his youth in a remote small town in New South Wales, Australia to his current upper level apartments near Boulevard St. Germain … Continue reading 'A Pound of Paper. Confessions of a Book Addict.' By John Baxter.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. 179pp. ISBN 1 58834-036-8. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries support and work with the twenty-two Smithsonian Museums and Research Centres. Together they encompass 1.5 million books and manuscripts. Knowledge of their collections, particularly overseas, is often overshadowed by the impact of neighbouring libraries such as the Library of Congress and the … Continue reading 'An Odyssey in Print. Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries.' By Mary Augusta Thomas.