Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 408 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 140 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 140
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Bibliographers -- United States -- Bio-bibliography
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Book collectors -- United States -- Bio-bibliography
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Bibliographers.
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Bibliography - General.
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Book collectors.
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General.
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United States.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Rosenblum, Joseph.
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Gale Research Inc
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LC no. |
94007047 |
ISBN |
0810353997 |
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9780810353992 |
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