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History of Books and Printing Reading Group
This group has been meeting at Motte & Bailey since October 2001, reading works about books, printing, and publishing from fiction to forgery. Books for the next meeting are determined at the end of each meeting, and members are encouraged to bring books to suggest or simply to show before the meeting. We always try to meet the 2nd Thursday of each month.
To
join the group or learn more, please contact
us at 734.669.0451 or
motte [at] mottebooks [dot] com.
Directions are here.
Next Meeting
The next meeting of the group will be at 7 p.m., 11 July 2005.
We are having a tour
of the Clements Library for our next Meeting.
If you need help acquiring the book, please contact us.
Refreshments will be provided.
Previous Books Discussed
| Albert
Manguel A History of Reading. NY: Viking, 1996. |
Marvin
Mondalin & Roy Meador Book Row: an Anecdotal & Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade. NY: Carroll & Graf, 2003. |
John Man. |
| Joseph
Blumenthal. The Printed Book in America. Hannover: University Press of New England, 1977, 1989. |
Nicholas
Basbanes. Patience & Fortitude: a Roving Chronicle of Book Pople, Book Places, and Book Places. NY: Harper Collins, 2001. |
Charles
Hamilton. Great Forgers and Famous Fakes. NY: Crown, 1980. |
| Nicholas
Basbanes. A Splendor of Letters: the Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World. NY: Harper Collins, 2003 |
Lionel Casson.
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Edith
Diehl. Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. 2 vols in 1. NY: Dover, 1980 (1946) |
| Charles
P. Everitt. The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter. NY: Little Brown, 1951. |
Henry
Petroski. The Book on the Bookshelf. NY: Knopf, 1999. |
Bennett Cerf.
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| Adam
Sisman. Boswell's Presumptuous Task: the Making of the Life of Johnson. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000. |
John
Harthan. The History of the Illustrated Book: the Western Tradition. NY: Thames & Hudson, 1981. |
Dard
Hunter. Papermaking: the History & Technique of an Ancient Craft. NY: Dover, 1978 (1947). |
| Arturo
Perez-Reverte. The Club Dumas. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1993 trans. 1996. |
Ross
King. Ex-Libris. NY: Walker, 1998. |
John
Dunning. Booked To Die. NY: Scribner's, 1992. |
| Simon
Winchester. The Professor and the Madman. NY: Harper Collins, 1998. |
Simon
Winchester. The Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press, 2003. |
Michael
Cart. In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians. NY: Overlook, 2003. |
| Simon
Worrall. The Poet and the Murderer: a True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery. NY: Dutton, 2002. |
Anne
Haight and Chandler Grannis Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. New Providence, N.J.: Bowker, 1978. |
Douglas
McMurtrie The Book: the Story of Printing & Bookmaking. London: Oxford, 1943 |
| S.
H. Steinberg. new edition. ed. by John Trevitt. Five Hundred Years of Printing. New Castle, Delaware: oak Knoll, 1996. |
Martin
Gorst. Measuring Eternity: the Search for the Beginning of Time. NY: Broadway Book, 2001 |
Joseph
L. Sax Playing Darts With a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999 |
| Phyllis
Walter Goodheart Gordon, editor & translator. Two Renaissance Book Hunters: the Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis. NY: Columbia University Press, 1974 |
John Noble
Wilford. |
Owen
Gingerich The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus NY: Walker, 2004 |
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Rita Ricketts |
Ray
Desmond Great Natural History Books and Their Creators British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2003 |
Simon
Loxley Type: the Secret History of Letters I.B. Tauris, 2003 |
| James
Hart The Popular Book, A History of America's Literary Taste Oxford: OUP, 1950 |
Claire
Tomalin Pepys: the Unequalled Self NY: Knopf, 2002 |
Aaron
Lansky Outwitting History Algonquin Books, 2004 |
| Alister
McGrath In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and A Culture. |
Bettina
Hurlimann Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe. |
Adrian
Wilson Design of Books. |
| Philip
Blom Encyclopedie : The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age London: Fourth Estate, 2004. |
Nicolas
Crane Mercator: the Man Who Mapped the Planet |
Christopher
Morely Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop |
| Sylvia
Beach Shakespeare & Company: the Story of an American Bookshop in Paris |
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