Rare Book School Lecture - When is a Book More Than a Book?
When is a Book More Than a Book?
Date: 10 July 2017
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: UVA Special Collections
Lecturer: Glen Miranker - Book Collector
Collecting books is a peculiar pastime. Why engage in so abstruse and potentially costly an activity when you can own reading copies at very modest expense?
Questing for and acquiring books are only a part of my bibliomania. Many books have a tale to tell beyond what’s printed between their covers. The “back-story”—and tracking down the back-story—for my books are an essential part of the thrill of the chase for me … and compelling reasons to be interested in books as artifacts.
I will explore this idea through a number of examples taken from my collection of Sherlockian materials, showing that book collecting is more than “a gentle madness,” as Nick Basbanes so aptly describes it.
- Date:
- Monday, July 10, 2017
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- Auditorium of Harrison/Small
- Campus:
- Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
- Categories:
- Lecture
- Presenter:
- Glen Miranker
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