Title & Author:

Early printed books as material objects : proceedings of the conference organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009 / edited by Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed.

Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Saur, ©2010.

Description:

xii, 367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

IFLA publications, 0344-6891 ; 149

Notes:
"Pre-conference on 'Early printed books as material objects--Principles, problems, perspectives', which was held as a satellite meeting to the annual congress of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Milan, Italy"--Page v.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface / Rolf Griebel -- Introduction / Bettina Wagner -- Copy-specifics in the printing shop / Paul Needham -- The Gutenberg Bibles that survive as binder's waste / Eric Marshall White -- The first experiments in book decoration as the Fust-Schöffer Press / Mayumi Ikeda -- Information from illumination : three case studies of incunabula in the 1470s / Lilian Armstrong -- Producing, buying and decorating books in the age of Gutenberg : the role of monasteries in central Europe / Christine Beier -- Colour plates -- Pomponio Leto's unpublished commentary on Sallust : five witnesses (and more) / Patricia J. Osmond -- Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in a marginal note in a Cicero incunable / Armin Schlechter -- Links between a fifteenth-century printer and a binder / Claire Bolton -- The German database of historical bookbindings (EBDB) : aims and perspectives of a cooperative research tool / Ulrike Marburger -- Bookbindings on incunabula in American library collections : a working census / Scott Husby -- The Venetian booktrade : a methodological approach to and first results of book-based historical research / Cristina Dondi -- Private libraries in sixteenth-century Italy / Angela Nuovo -- Quatre siècles d'histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori : entre vénération et valorisation / Raphaële Mouren -- The 'biography of copies' : provenance description in online catalogues / Michaela Scheibe -- Creating a better past : collectors of incunabula in the late eighteenth century / Kristian Jensen -- Deconstruction and reconstruction : detecting and interpreting sophisticated copies / Margaret Lane Ford -- The idea(l) of the ideal copy : some thoughts on books with multiple identities / Wolfgang Undorf -- The importance of the copy census as a methodology in book history / David Pearson.
In English; one entry in French.

ISBN:

9783110253245 (hbk.)
3110253240 (hbk.)
9783110255300
3110255308

Subject:

Books History 1450-1600 Congresses.
Printing History Origin and antecedents Congresses.
Livres Histoire 1450-1600 Congrès.
Imprimerie Histoire Origines et antécédents Congrès.
Antiques, Collecting.
Books.
Printing Origin and antecedents.
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Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Wagner, Bettina.
Reed, Marcia, 1945-
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.
IFLA publications ; 149.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282118
Call No.: BIB 219281
Status: Available