Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books

Warwick Gould’s “Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books” with evidence of Yeats’s inscriptions and ownership of his rarest books in its Appendices argues that connoisseurship enhances readership as well as creating value. In the coming era of “Virtual Reading Rooms” for...

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Main Author: Warwick Gould
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2024-08-01
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description Warwick Gould’s “Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books” with evidence of Yeats’s inscriptions and ownership of his rarest books in its Appendices argues that connoisseurship enhances readership as well as creating value. In the coming era of “Virtual Reading Rooms” for research libraries, collectors, and the antiquarian book trade, Yeats’s books as the symbolical embodiment of his endlessly revised texts, will be examined more often in online form. As access to digital representation of rare editions widens, students will have even more need to understand the materiality of the book. Copy-specific provenance data-bases will be an essential tool of online bibliography if we are to understand the motives of collectors with which Yeats himself remained baffled.
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Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books
Studi Irlandesi
connoisseurship
copy-specific censuses
descriptive bibliography
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provenance
quinn
w.t.h. howe
inscription
yeats
james carleton young
title Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books
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title_short Bibliophilia and Descriptive Bibliography: the Case of Yeats’s Books
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copy-specific censuses
descriptive bibliography
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provenance
quinn
w.t.h. howe
inscription
yeats
james carleton young
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