42 books written or edited by, or about, Anthony ADAMS-REILLY F.R.G.S.; Margueritte Harmon BRO; Kevin BROWNLEE; SAINT CYPRIAN; Pontius of Carthage; John William DRAPER; Edward Murray EAST; Laurence ECHARD; Sherwood EDDY; Ludwig EDELSTEIN; Simeon EDMUNDS; Philip EDWARDS; Paul A. ELLIOTT; Samuel Bulfinch EMMONS; Gordon EPPERSON; Desiderius ERASMUS; Margaret R. EWALT; Johannes FABRICIUS; William FALCONER; Patricia FARA; Paul Lawrence FARBER; John Stephen FARMER; Georgina D. FELDBERG; Henry FERGUS,; Henry FIELDING; William J. FIELDING; J. Arthur FINDLAY; Valeria FINUCCI; Camille FLAMMARION; Ludwick FLECK,.; Donald FLEMING; Théodore FLOURNOY; Thomas Rogers FORBES; Arthur FORD; George FORSTER; Johann Reinhold FORSTER; Orson Squire FOWLER; Girolamo [Hieronymi] FRACASTORO [FRACASTORIUS]; Benjamin FRANKLIN; Roger FRENCH; Isaac K. FUNK; James David FORBES; Frank GREENAWAY; Edmund GURNEY; Michael E. HOARE; NATHANIEL MARSHALL; Henry MORE MUNDAY; Thomas ROSCOE; John Campbell SHAIRP; Peter Guthrie TAIT; Owsei TEMKIN; C. Lilian TEMKIN; Emily Wilmer Cave WRIGHT.
Mark Hodkinson ponders the nature of our personal book collections, why and how we gather books, what it says about us, and how we ever expect to find time to read them all.
" Books, glorious books — confessions of a bibliomaniac"
As a Radio 4 documentary about book collectors airs, the Times deputy literary editor, James Marriott, who lives in a room full of volumes, admits to his problem.
Sandra Hindman is owner and founder of "Les Enluminures" with galleries in Chicago, Paris and New York specialising in manuscripts and miniatures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the gallery also handles rings and jewelry from the same periods.
In this podcast Sandra has invited collector Benjamin Zucker and looks at their roles and relationship as dealer and collector. While this podcast focusses on the current "Diamonds" exhibition, it also reveals the fascination to collect, the handling of manuscripts and the knowledge needed to deal in historical items.
The 43rd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will take place this weekend, one of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the country. But not the only bibliophile event in Boston!
The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s beautiful Back Bay for its 43rd year, November 15-17, 2019.
“I felt strong enough to lift a mountain” declared Alexandre Dumas after a visit to Georgia in 1858.
Presidents of ILAB’s member associations certainly felt equally inspired after a week of meetings in the capital, Tbilisi.
