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  • - Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century
    by David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
    £29.49

    Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values that underpins bibliography, access and collecting today. This study illuminates how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies.

  • - Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840
    by David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
    £26.49 - 51.99

    Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.

  • - The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700
    by David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
    £35.49

    As we rely increasingly on digital resources, what is our responsibility to preserve 'old books' for the future? How was the question of preservation approached historically? David McKitterick's lively and wide-ranging study explores how 'old books' have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day.

  • by David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
    £112.99

    This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental changes in printing, publishing, and bookselling. It opens with the new arrangements made by the University for printing in Cambridge in the 1690s, and closes on the eve of the opening of the Press's new premises in London.

  • by David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
    £112.99

    This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, and shows how the Press's printing assumed a leading role in modern typographical history.

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