Bibliophobia - Remarks on Present Languid Depressed State of Literature Book Trade.

Klappentext In Dibdin's 1832 pamphlet! the narrator embarks upon a journey from booksellers to libraries! to seek the traces of 'bibliomania'. Zusammenfassung This pamphlet by Thomas Dibdin (1776–1847) is a response to the author's own Bibliomania (1809), which focused on obsessive book collecting. But now the narrator finds out that 'bibliomania is no more', and conducts an entertaining yet melancholic investigation on print culture all the way to the Bodleian Library. Inhaltsverzeichnis Advertisement; Text.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Dibdin Thomas Frognall, Dibdin Thomas Frognall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9781108015592
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01559-2
• No. of pages: 108
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade