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The Book-Hunter in Paris by Octave Uzanne explores second hand and used booksellers and stalls in Paris during the late 19th century. [7] The Société typographique de Neuchâtel sales representative, Jean-François Favarger, made several tours of France and Switzerland, selling books and negotiating deals with booksellers in 1775-1776. [8]
J. Raven, H. Small, and N. Tadmor (eds.), The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge UP, 1996) History of the Book in Britain. Cambridge University Press. 1998–2014. ISBN 0521573467. (6 volumes) published in 21st century. Sally Mapstone; et al., eds. (2007–2012). Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Edinburgh ...
The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [1] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times. [2]
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is a seven-volume series on the history of texts in the United Kingdom. It was published between 1999 and 2019 by Cambridge University Press . Bibliography
Among the book series in the arts published by Cambridge University Press are: [4] Cambridge Film Classics; Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture; Cambridge Studies in the History of Art; Contemporary Artists and their Critics; Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks; Fitzwilliam Museum Publications; Greater Medieval Houses