The encyclopedia of ephemera : a guide to the fragmentary documents of everyday life for the collector, curator, and historian / Maurice Rickards ; edited and completed by Michael Twyman with the assistance of Sally de Beaumont and Amoret Tanner.

Main entry:

Rickards, Maurice, 1919-1998.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

x, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"With more than 400 entries on paper collectibles from the most obscure to the most common, this outstanding source is arranged alphabetically and provides written descriptions and photographs of anything from an ABC primer from 19th-century London to winkle bags. This is truly a source to be consulted by collectors or anyone looking for a glimpse of the past."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415926483
9780415926485

Subject:

Printed ephemera Dictionaries.
Printed ephemera Collectors and collecting.
Printed ephemera Encyclopedias.
Publications history
Advertising history.
Records.
Publications éphémères Encyclopédies.
Publications éphémères Collectionneurs et collections.
Printed ephemera
Wörterbuch
Alltag
Druckwerk
Gebrauchstext

Form/genre:

Encyclopedia
Dictionary
Reference sources.
Encyclopedias.
encyclopedias.
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Wörterbuch.
Encyclopédies.
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Twyman, Michael.
De Beaumont, Sally.
Tanner, Amoret.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 221780
Call No.: NC1280 .R5 2000
Status: Available

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