Tag: book history

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| May 5, 2014

vandalism and value

I can’t count the number of times over the years I have shaken my fist — usually metaphorically — at people...

| October 7, 2010

first and last

Martyn Lyons, from an essay on “New Readers in the NIneteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers”: By the...

| September 30, 2010

resisting print

I’m reading and enjoying Andrew Pettegree’s The Book in the Renaissance, and as I move along I can’t stop...

| February 3, 2010

my new companion

My dear friend John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture — which you should be subscribing to, by the way — called...