The Scholar-Librarian
Subtitle: Books, Libraries, and the Visual Arts
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; Boston Athenaeum
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781584561590
Subjects: Library & Information Science; Reference
Description: "In these essays Richard Wendorf's critical intelligence can be gauged in his analysis of works as diverse as the poetical manuscripts of Alexander Pope, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and Piranesi's early etchings, as well as various typographical and bibliographical issues. But several of these essays also reveal another side of the author as he writes in a more personal (and often humorous) style about collecting, libraries, and librarianship. Both critically and professionally Wendorf is a problem-solver, and readers will relish joining him as he examines the precise relationship between Piranesi's ruins and the etching process or as he persuades a potential donor to present a fabled letter by John Keats to Harvard University."--BOOK JACKET.