Journeys Through the Market: Travel, Travelers and the Book Trade. Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. St Paul‟s Bib-liographies, Oak Knoll Press, 1999. xiii, 152pp. ISBN 1-58456-014-2 (USA) or 1-873040-56-3 (UK). $US39.95. Travel has for centuries been known to the book trade as a saleable commodity. It began with explorers' accounts of their discoveries, … Continue reading Book Review
Category: 2000-09
John Holroyd, O.A.M. (1911-2000) John Holroyd was born in Melbourne in May 1911 and died on the 28th August 2000, at the age of 89. There is probably no-one whose departure from the world of books is of so much significance in terms of book-trade history. John's career in bookselling is well-known. He started work … Continue reading John Holroyd, O.A.M. (1911-2000)
In the September 1999 issue of The Bookplate Society‟s Newsletter their "A Bookplate Alphabet" reached the letters P and Q and in-cluded the following. PREMIUMS. The bookplates designed to record a prize or award of a book or books to an individual from an institution are referred to as premiums. They form a separate category … Continue reading Premium or Prize Plates
Whoever has made a search on the Internet and has not sufficiently focussed the points of interest, often has been over-whelmed by the enormous number of resulting references. The reader may well be shaking the ungendered head on reading the title of this essay. We could start with the literature to be found in a … Continue reading Medicine and Literature