The following notes have been inspired by Brian Taylor’s call to arms–or was it a call to fall on one’s sword--in the issue of Biblionews (vol. 28, no. 1 (Mar. 2003)) about Jeff Bidgood’s comments on style. Style is both that battered old hat we like to wear at the bottom of the garden as … Continue reading COLLECTING THE FESTSCHRIFTS.
Category: Jurgen Wegner
(St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001). xix, 444 p. $A50.00 “Book history” is hardly a recent phenomenon and some aspects of it have been an area of serious study for several centuries at least. As an area for academic research, the social, cultural and intellectual contribution of books has been the subject of study … Continue reading 'A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonized market' / edited by Martyn Lyons & John Arnold
Edited by R. Summers. Pearl Beach, [N.S.W.]: Escutcheon Press, 1999. 113 p. + 4 broadsheets, 2 leaflets: ill. (some col.), 2 maps (1 col.), ports; 41 x 27 cm. (in slipcase 42 x 27 cm.). ISBN 1875862145 [sic]. Limited ed. of 25 numb., signed copies. And what a wonderful book this is! In his introduction … Continue reading 'How is a man: commonplace book.'
When you think about it, a book is very much like a suitcase. Some only buy new ones, use them once, then toss them. Preferably at Vuitton. Others cannot afford new ones but spend forever searching junk shops in the hope of finding one which other people may not think too shabby. The refined few … Continue reading “ARE THERE ANY RULES FOR BOOK INSCRIPTIONS?”