(= Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin. Vol.25, Nos.1 & 2, 2001). (Purchase details available from susan.woodburn@adelaide.edu.au ). This special Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand is dedicated to the memory of Professor Donald Francis MacKenzie. MacKenzie was born in New Zealand in 1931 and in a distinguished academic … Continue reading 'Printers and Readers. In Memoriam. D.F. MacKenzie 1931-1999'
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Edited by Robert M. Seiler. London: The Athlone Press. 1999. xii, 206pp. ISBN 0 485 11535 2. £45. Professor Robert M. Seiler has brought together the correspondence of Walter Pater and his sisters and their publisher, Macmillan and Company, from 1872-1914. Walter Pater was born in 1839 and became a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, … Continue reading 'The Book Beautiful. Walter Pater and the House of MacMillan.'
Scene.. A boys’ boarding school, England, the 1950s. One evening during “Prep”. A master is walking slowly up and down the aisles of desks. He stops at one. Master: How dare you write in a book like that! Boy: But Sir, it’s my book, I paid for it Sir! Master: How dare you answer me … Continue reading Writing in Books
And I ask you: Is there anyone out there who does not collect bookmarks?! Bookmarks are everywhere. They are not just to be found in that old second-hand book you picked up at the church fête for ten cents last Saturday. Think of any place, activity, society, any area of human endeavour you like, and … Continue reading BOOKMARK = LESEZEICHEN = SEGNALIBRO = SIGNET = MARCADOR DE LIBROS.