Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
ABC for Book Collectors
Author: John CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The English Heretic Collection
Author: Andy SharpPublisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462102
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players in the end game of the Sixties. The Cornwall of Du Maurier's The Birds is ploughed to reveal the hidden psychic codes of our Blitz spirit. In a powerfully relevant occult rendering of a bruised Island, the myth of Churchill is dissected and re-animalised. New maps of hell are drawn by colliding the forensic vision of JG Ballard and Lovecraftian magic. Actors, witches and psychopaths maraud across a nightmare terrain of murderous henges and abandoned military bases; conflating creative research into a surreal documentary, history as hallucination. Geography becomes an alchemical alembic, a vale of soul-making distilled by the lysergic psychobiology of Stanislav Grof, the alcoholic lyricism of Malcolm Lowry, and the convulsive travelogues of the Marquis de Sade. If history is revealed as paranoid ritual, how do we escape its time traps to wild new imaginative geographies? The English Heretic collection is a darkly comical, urgently lyrical, mental escape hatch from the hells of our own making.
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-collectors
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780833728708
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Great Book-collectors
Author: Charles Isaac EltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Book Collectors" by William Younger Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
English Book Collectors
Author: Alfred W. PollardPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465543023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: 9780833711540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Collecting the Past
Author: Toby BurrowsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351208543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Today’s libraries and museums are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on a wide range of significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including Hans Sloane, Sarah Sophia Banks, Thomas Phillipps, Sydney Cockerell, J. P. Morgan Jr., Alfred Chester Beatty and R. E. Hart. Contributors to the volume examine the phenomenon of collecting in a variety of settings and across a range of different materials. Considering the aims and motives that led these collectors to assemble such remarkable collections, the book also examines the history of these collections after the collector’s death. Particular attention is given to the often complicated relationship between collectors and the public institutions that subsequently came to house their collections. Situated within the framework of cultural collecting more generally, this book offers an authoritative series of essays on key collectors. Collecting the Past should be most interesting to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of museum studies, book history, manuscript studies, museum history, library history and the history of collecting. Professionals in libraries, museums and galleries will also find the volume of great interest.