Books on the move
Subtitle: tracking copies through collections and the book trade
By: edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote
Contributors: Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael, 1938-; Mandelbrote, Giles
Series: Publishing pathways
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; British Library; Oak Knoll Pr
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Castle, DE; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781584562191; 9780712309868
Subjects: Books -- Provenance -- Congresses; Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Book collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Private libraries -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from individual copies and piecing together the documentary evidence to provide this narrative."

"In this volume, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. This may focus on the large collections accumulated by Renaissance scholars, but may equally involve tracking multiple copies of the same work through the marks of ownership left by unknown readers. Books on the Move Represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade."--Jacket.
Notes: "The present volume is the twenty-seventh in the series of proceedings of the annual conference on book trade history, which started in 1979. This conference was held at Wesley's Chapel in City Road on 1 and 2 December 2006, under the auspices of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association ..."--Introd

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: 'Lost' : the destruction, dispersal and rediscovery of manuscripts / Peter Beal; title: What can we learn by tracking multiple copies of books? / David Pearson; title: The creation and dispersal of the library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli / Angela Nuovo; title: Books from the library of Andreas Dudith (1533-89) in the library of Isaac Vossius (1618-89) / Astrid Balsem; title: From Venice and Naples to Paris, The Hague, London, Oxford, Berlin; title: : the odyssey of the manuscript collection of Gerard and Johan Meerman / Jos van Heel; title: Pathways to survival of books of hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century / Cristina Dondi; title: Bibliophily and public-private partnership : the library of Gustave van Havre (1817-92) and its afterlife in Antwerp libraries / Pierre Delsaerdt