Title: A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour : a life in rare books /
Authors: Landon, Richard.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Landon, Richard.; Bibliography Methodology.; Books History; Rare books Bibliography Methodology; Book collecting History.; Book collectors History.
Abstract: "A collection of essays on bibliography, book history, book collecting, and the antiquarian book trade by Richard Landon. Also includes autobiographical essays"--
Contents: Ronald B. McKerrow, An introduction to bibliography for literary students -- 1989 : the director travels -- Franklin on stage -- Twenty-five years on : personal reminiscences -- The Collard bequest -- A personal miscellany -- Subject bibliography : literature in English -- Charles Darwin : some bibliographical problems and textual implications -- Terra Australis incognita : the exile narratives -- Galileo and scientific epistolography in the late Renaissance -- A man under fire : Henry Vizetelly and the question of obscenity in Victorian England -- Literary forgery and mystifications : causes and effects -- The elixir of life : Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and literary London -- Thoreau MacDonald -- From Capell to Tanselle : bibliography and humanities scholarship -- The case of the cabinet connoisseur, or, The concept of special collections -- Embracing the flood : questions about collecting twentieth-century non-literary works -- The two Jameses : Edwards and Lackington and the development of antiquarian bookselling in Great Britain -- The Stillman Drake Galileo Collection -- The antiquarian book trade in Britain 1695-1830 : the use of auction and booksellers' catalogues -- Was William Morris really a pre-Raphaelite? -- The library of King George III -- Two collectors : Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackney -- The Hannah Collection in the history of medicine and related sciences -- Who owned it and why it matters : provenance.