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Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

Posted By: First1
Date: 11 May 2024 04:53:59
Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse by Sarah Harkness
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1035008939 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 17.96 MB

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched biography.
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Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects

Posted By: readerXXI
Date: 14 Apr 2024 06:26:57
Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects

Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects
by Linn Holmberg and Maria Simonsen
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030642992 | 341 Pages | True PDF | 4.2 MB
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Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond

Posted By: readerXXI
Date: 25 Feb 2024 21:22:56
Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond

Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond: First Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project
Radu Dipratu, Samuel Noble
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9783111057804 | 361 Pages | True PDF | 7.5 MB
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

Posted By: First1
Date: 5 Dec 2023 05:04:51
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading by Andrew Pettegree
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604342 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 124.05 MB

A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) illumination of how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly

Posted By: First1
Date: 22 Nov 2022 05:05:38
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly

Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly by Kenneth C. Davis
English | November 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 198218003X | 448 pages | True EPUB | 6.13 MB

A delightful, entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time from a bestselling historian, author, and lifelong reader.
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Librorum Ridiculorum: a Compendium of Bizarre Books

Posted By: First1
Date: 19 Nov 2022 06:55:20
Librorum Ridiculorum: a Compendium of Bizarre Books

Librorum Ridiculorum: a Compendium of Bizarre Books by Brian Lake
English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 0008545545 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 114.52 MB

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.
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After Print : Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures

Posted By: readerXXI
Date: 7 Oct 2022 12:37:18
After Print : Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures

After Print : Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
by Rachael Scarborough King
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0813943485 | 350 Pages | True ePUB | 4.06 MB
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Book Parts

Posted By: First1
Date: 10 Mar 2022 15:29:02
Book Parts

Book Parts by Dennis Duncan, Adam Smyth
English | June 27th, 2019 | ISBN: 0198812469 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 8.52 MB

What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts—page numbers and running heads, copyright statements and errata lists—each possessed of particular conventions, each with their own lively histories.
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, US Edition

Posted By: tarantoga
Date: 15 Feb 2022 05:04:15
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, US Edition

Dennis Duncan, "Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, US Edition"
English | ISBN: 1324002549 | 2022 | EPUB | 352 pages | 29 MB
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Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure

Posted By: First1
Date: 9 Dec 2021 06:08:33
Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure

Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure by Dennis Duncan
English | September 2nd, 2021 | ISBN: 0241374235 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 11.47 MB

'Hilarious' Sam Leith
'I loved this book' Susie Dent'
'Witty and affectionate' Lynne Truss
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Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Posted By: sasha82
Date: 23 Mar 2021 05:11:13
Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England (The Arden Shakespeare) by Tiffany Stern
November 14, 2019 | ISBN: 1350051349, 1350248851 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 2.5 MB
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Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

Posted By: sasha82
Date: 20 Mar 2021 09:16:45
Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) by Toby Burrows, Cynthia Johnston
2019 | ISBN: 0815382340, 0367606801 | English | 154 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies)

Posted By: AlexGolova
Date: 14 Dec 2020 15:12:03
Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies)

Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies) by Duncan Robertson
English | December 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0879072385 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 0,432 MB
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