The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886): The Study of the Dispersal of a Nineteenth-century American Private Library, Том 1Samuel J. Rogal Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 - 474 стор. volume is the first in a two-volume set which constitutes an edition of the sale catalogue of the private library of Rushton M. Dorman of Chicago, Illinois, a collection numbering 1842 separate items. The book demonstrates book-collecting and reading habits and interests among affluent late 19th-century Americans. In addition, the substance and tone of the comments set down by the original compiler of the catalogue display the marketing methods employed by a major late-19th-century book-auction firm. |
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Early Printed Books | 73 |
Bibliography | 113 |
Archaeology | 149 |
Prints and Drawings | 189 |
Art | 239 |
Cruikshankiana | 385 |
Facetiae | 423 |
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The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886): The Study ..., Том 2 Samuel J. Rogal Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2002 |
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