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The Library: A Fragile History

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內容簡介 圖書館的誕生，也吹起了私人收藏家的囤書風潮，更是引發多次珍稀古籍爭奪大戰，精雕細琢、展現高度工藝技術的美麗書封，充滿細緻插畫的內頁印刷，對當時的人來說，這些書本的價值連城，甚至頻頻發生竊盜事件與蓄意縱火！而收藏家與慈善家的貢獻，也間接地形塑了世上最經典的書系，改變世界的閱讀風潮和品味。LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNA SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident.In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts."

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作者介紹

作者介紹 Andrew PettegreeAndrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He is the author of the prize-winning Book in the Renaissance and The Invention of News, among other publications. He is a former Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society and the founding director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue.Arthur der WeduwenArthur der Weduwen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. He is the author of several books on the history of newspapers, advertising and publishing. He owns a small library of seventeenth and eighteenth-century books, which, as the research for The Library has shown, is probably doomed to be dispersed.

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最佳賣點 : 圖書館的歷史：私人收藏家大戰爭‧珍稀昂貴古籍‧意想不到的犯罪