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Title American book-collectors and bibliographers. First series / edited by Joseph Rosenblum
Published Detroit : Gale Research, 1994
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 408 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 140
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 140
Contents Hubert Towe Bancroft (1832-1918) -- Thomas Pennant Barton (1803-1869) -- Fredson Thayer Bowers (1905-1991) -- George Brinley, Jr.(1817-1875) -- William Byrd II (1674-1744) -- George Watson Cole (1850-1939) -Edward Augustus Crowninshield (1817-1859) -- Ernest Dawson (1882-1947) -- Carrie Estelle Doheny (1875-1958) -Wilberforce Eames (1855-1937) -- Eugene Field (1850-1895) -Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) -- Warren Richardson Howell (1912-1984) -- Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927) -- James Lenox (1800-1880) -- Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) -- J.K. Lilly, Jr. (1893-1966) -- James Logan (1674-1751) -Amy Lowell (1874-1925) -- Leonard L. Mackall (1879-1937) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Susan Minns (1839-1938) -- John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) and John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943) -- A. Edward Newton (1864-1940) -- Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) -- Abbie Hanscom Pope (1858-1894) -- Thomas Prince (1687-1758) -- David Anton Randall (1905-1975) -- Gordon Norton Ray (1915-1986) -- A .S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952) -- Leona Rostenberg (1908- ) and Madeleine B. Stern (1912- ) -- George D. Smith (1870-1920) -- Henry Stevens (1819-1886) -- Thomas Winthrop Streeter (1883-1965) -- George Ticknor (1791-1871) -- Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1876-1963) -- B. George Ulizio (1889-1969) -- Henry R. Wagner (1862-1957) -- Henry Walters (1848-1931) -- Gabriel Wells (1862-1946) -- Harry Elkins Widener (1885-1912) -- John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) -- John Cook Wyllie (1908-1968)
Summary Essays on American booksellers and librarians in addition to book collectors and bibliographers. Discusses how collectors, booksellers, bibliographers and librarians interact as well as the bibliophile's role in scholarship. Provides information on the history of book culture in America
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Bibliographers -- United States -- Bio-bibliography
Book collectors -- United States -- Bio-bibliography
Bibliographers.
Bibliography - General.
Book collectors.
General.
United States.
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenblum, Joseph.
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 94007047
ISBN 0810353997
9780810353992