A long way from the Armstrong beer parlour
Subtitle: a life in rare books
By: essays by Richard Landon ; with an introduction by Marie Elena Korey
Publisher: Oak Knoll Books; The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Castle, Delaware; Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781584563303; 9780772761132
Subjects: Bibliography; Methodology; Books; History; Rare books; Book collecting; Book collectors
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A collection of essays on bibliography, book history, book collecting, and the antiquarian book trade by Richard Landon. Also includes autobiographical essays"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ronald B. McKerrow, An introduction to bibliography for literary students; title: 1989 : the director travels; title: Franklin on stage; title: Twenty-five years on : personal reminiscences; title: The Collard bequest; title: A personal miscellany; title: Subject bibliography : literature in English; title: Charles Darwin : some bibliographical problems and textual implications; title: Terra Australis incognita : the exile narratives; title: Galileo and scientific epistolography in the late Renaissance; title: A man under fire : Henry Vizetelly and the question of obscenity in Victorian England; title: Literary forgery and mystifications : causes and effects; title: The elixir of life : Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and literary London; title: Thoreau MacDonald; title: From Capell to Tanselle : bibliography and humanities scholarship; title: The case of the cabinet connoisseur, or, The concept of special collections; title: Embracing the flood : questions about collecting twentieth-century non-literary works; title: The two Jameses : Edwards and Lackington and the development of antiquarian bookselling in Great Britain; title: The Stillman Drake Galileo Collection; title: The antiquarian book trade in Britain 1695-1830 : the use of auction and booksellers' catalogues; title: Was William Morris really a pre-Raphaelite?; title: The library of King George III; title: Two collectors : Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackney; title: The Hannah Collection in the history of medicine and related sciences; title: Who owned it and why it matters : provenance.