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Author Silverman, Willa Z., 1959-

Title The new bibliopolis : French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 / Willa Z. Silverman.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010.
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages : illustrations, portraits).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in book and print culture
Studies in book and print culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.
Contents Introduction. New Bibliopolis -- 1. Books Worthy of Our Era? Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury Book -- 2. Ancients against Moderns: Bibliophilia at the Fin de Siecle -- 3. Everything to the Moderns: Independent and Contemporary Bibliophiles -- 4. Artist and Amateur in the Creation of Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Books -- 5. Unpacking His Library. Robert de Montesquiou and the Aesthetics of the Book -- 6. Enemies of Books? Women and the Bibliophilic Imagination -- 7. Conclusion: The End of Books?
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Language Title and text in English ; with some text in French.
Subject Book collectors -- France -- History.
Book collectors.
France.
History.
Book collectors -- France -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Books -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Books.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Books -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Book collecting -- France -- History.
Book collecting.
Bibliomania -- History.
Bibliomania.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Silverman, Willa Z., 1959- New bibliopolis. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2009290172
ISBN 9781442688698 (electronic book)
1442688696 (electronic book)
9780802092113
080209211X
Standard No. (YBP)3252816