Title: A Splendor of Letters
Description: In A Splendor of Letters , Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude , a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books." In this beautifully packaged edition, Basbanes brings to a close his wonderful trilogy on the remarkable world of books and bibliophil
Subjects: Archival materials, Books, Censorship, Conservation and restoration, Cultural property, Digital preservation, History, Library materials, Protection, Reproduction, Written communication, Buch, Buchrestaurierung, Boekwezen, Boeken, Digitalisierung, Philosophie, Books, history, Cultural property, protection