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Provenance research in book history: a handbook

Provenance research in book history: a handbook
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ISBN 1584563648 (hbk.)
9781584563648 (hbk.)
Author Pearson, David 1955-
Title Provenance research in book history : a handbook / David Pearson
Edition New and revised edition
Publisher Oxford : Bodleian Library, New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2019
Physical desc. xi, 436 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note First edition published: London : British Library, 1994.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1: Introduction. The purpose and scope of this book -- Why it matters -- Frustrations of provenance research -- How to use this book -- The treatment of online resources -- 2: Inscriptions, mottoes & other manuscript additions. Individual marks of ownership -- Institutional library inscriptions -- Booksellers' codes -- Annotations, marginalia and marks of reading -- 3: Bookplates & book labels. Historical and stylistic development of bookplates -- The use and interpretation of bookplates -- Bookplate collecting -- Identifying bookplates -- Standard reference works -- Books about bookplates -- Collections of bookplates -- Book labels -- 4: Book stamps & stencils. Stencils -- Library stamps -- 5: Bookbindings & external features. Bookbindings as provenance evidence -- Names and initials -- Armorial decoration of bookbindings -- Engraved metal plates on bindings -- Nailed-on labels -- Leaf edges -- Bookbindings as provenance evidence more generally -- Initials on binders' tools -- 6: Sale catalogues. The importance of sale catalogues -- History and development -- Descriptive conventions in sale catalogues -- Identifying and locating sale catalogues -- Lists and indexes -- Facsimiles of sale catalogues -- Works on the history and use of sale catalogues -- Collections of sale catalogues -- Auctioneers -- Booksellers -- 7: Catalogues & lists of private libraries. Printed lists and catalogues -- Manuscript lists and inventories -- Probate inventories -- Wills -- Tracing wills and inventories -- Early union catalogues -- Further historic union catalogues -- Subscription lists -- 8: Provenance indexes to libraries. What is included -- Great Britain and Ireland -- United States of America -- Canada -- Australia -- New Zealand -- 9: Heraldry, palaeography & tracing owners. Heraldry -- Palaeography -- Tracing owners. 10: Works on provenance, book collecting & private library history. The use, value and application of provenance studies -- Overviews of the history of book collecting and ownership -- Directories and listings of book collectors and owners -- Appendix: Mottoes used by individual book owners.
Subject Books -- Provenance -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Book collecting -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Books -- Owners' marks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Library catalogs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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