Order and Connexion
Studies in Bibliography and Book History. Selected Papers from the Munby Seminar
Published on 28. February 1997
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Hardback
224 pages
978-0-85991-506-9 (ISBN)
Description
These papers illustrate a variety of ways in which bibliographical evidence can be used to determine significant features in a diverse range of manuscripts and printed books. The title Order and Connexionrelates to two of the most important aspects of bibliography, to the fore in this collection: the bringing of coherence to the sequence of manifestations of a text or a body of similar texts, and the establishing of connections which texts have withthe circumstances of their creation, publication, dissemination, reception, reputation, influence, and survival. R.C. ALSTONis Professor of Library Studies at University College, London. All contributors have at some time been Munby Fellows - a post founded in memory of the bibliographical scholar Alan Munby. They areKEITH MASLEN, HUGH AMORY, BRIAN McMULLIN, FRANS KORSTEN, PAMELA ROBINSON, DAVID MONEY, JO ANN McEACHERN, HAROLD LOVE, PAUL HOPKINS, JAMES CARLEY, JAMES RAVE Munby Seminar, 1994
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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7 b/w. 9 line.
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
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978-0-85991-506-9 (9780859915069)
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James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.
Content
`Samuel Richardson as printer: expanding the canon.' - Keith I. Maslen
`Memorializing a London bookscape: the mapping and reading of Paternoster Row and St Paul's Churchyard, 1695-1814'. - Hugh Amory
`The Lingering death of the press figure'. - Brian J. McMullin
`Thomas Hearne: the man and his library'. - Frans J.M. Korsten
`John Leslie's `Libra duo': manuscripts belonging to Mary Queen of Scots'. - Pamela Robinson
`Neo-Latin literature in Cambridge'. - David K. Money
`The Bibliography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Contrat social'. - Jo Ann E. McEachern
`How personal is a personal miscellany? Sarah Cowper, Martin Clifford and the `Buckingham Commonplace Book''. - Harold H. Love
``As it was not spoke by Mr. Haines': an unpublished attack on Shadwell in an Epilogue by Rochester'. - P.A. Hopkins
`Presentation manuscripts from the collection of Henry VIII: the case of Henry Parker, Lord Morley'. - James Carley
`Memorializing a London bookscape: the mapping and reading of Paternoster Row and St Paul's Churchyard, 1695-1814'. - James Raven
`Memorializing a London bookscape: the mapping and reading of Paternoster Row and St Paul's Churchyard, 1695-1814'. - Hugh Amory
`The Lingering death of the press figure'. - Brian J. McMullin
`Thomas Hearne: the man and his library'. - Frans J.M. Korsten
`John Leslie's `Libra duo': manuscripts belonging to Mary Queen of Scots'. - Pamela Robinson
`Neo-Latin literature in Cambridge'. - David K. Money
`The Bibliography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Contrat social'. - Jo Ann E. McEachern
`How personal is a personal miscellany? Sarah Cowper, Martin Clifford and the `Buckingham Commonplace Book''. - Harold H. Love
``As it was not spoke by Mr. Haines': an unpublished attack on Shadwell in an Epilogue by Rochester'. - P.A. Hopkins
`Presentation manuscripts from the collection of Henry VIII: the case of Henry Parker, Lord Morley'. - James Carley
`Memorializing a London bookscape: the mapping and reading of Paternoster Row and St Paul's Churchyard, 1695-1814'. - James Raven