Isbn: 9780859915069 - order and connexion: studies in bibliography and book history : selected papers from the munby seminar, cambridge, july 1994 (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Red paper boards bright and sharp, though a touch dusty with several minute stains, gilt lettering bright; Edges a touch dusty, but pages otherwise internally clean with no annotation; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy.; 6.5 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 202 pages. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Name in front, otherwise like new. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The title of this selection from the papers given at Cambridge in July 1994 at the Seminar to which all former Munby Fellows were invited is taken from Philip Francis' rendering of two lines in Horace's Art of Poetry (1746) which have been variously translated into English. Somehow, if one surveys the literature about bibliography and what it seeks to achieve, the two words which best describe an activity which has been part of the world's cultural heritage since the invention of writing are order and connexion: the bringing of coherence to the sequence of manifestations of a text or a body of texts with a similarity of content or scope, and establishing the connexions that texts have with the circumstances of their creation, publication, dissemination, reception, reputation and survival. The pur-suit of order and connexion embraces virtually every study of books, whether manuscript or printed, in the vast literature that is contained within what is called bibliography. A distinctive feature of th.…