The Dictionary of the Book
This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality.
The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term – more than 2,000 – that could be used in booksellers' catalogs, library records, and collectors' descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including:
- The book as physical object
- Typeface terminology
- Paper terminology
- Printing
- Book collecting
- Cataloging
- Book design
- Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description
- Physical Condition and how to describe it
- Calligraphy
- Language of manuscripts
- Writing implements
- Librarianship
- Legal issues
- Parts of a book
- Book condition terminology
- Pricing of books
- Buying and selling
- Auctions
- Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs
- Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration
- Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books
- Book collecting clubs and societies
- How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs
- And much more
The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography – more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.
Foreword by Nicholas Basbanes
Introduction to the First Edition
Introduction to the Second Edition
The Dictionary
Appendix A: Paper and Paper-Related Terminology in the Present Volume
Appendix B: Typeface Terminology
Appendix C: Paper Sizes
Appendix D: Binding Terminology in the Present Volume
Appendix E: Book Collectors’ Clubs and Societies
Bibliography
About the Author
Sidney E. Berger was the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem; he is now that library's Director Emeritus. For the past 18 years, he has been on the faculties of Simmons University and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, teaching rare-book classes in both institutions' library schools. He was also a Curator of Printed Books and then Curator of Manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, and he headed the Special Collections Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is widely published in several fields, and his book Rare Books and Specials Collections won the 2015 ABC-CLIO/American Library Association award for the Best Book in Library Literature. He makes paper and casts type by hand, and he is the proprietor of the Doe Press, publishing short texts from handset types, printed on a hand press.
| Pm Supplier | Ingram Publisher Services UK (NBNi) |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 1538151324 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9781538151327 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2023-01-16 |
| Pm Width | 229 |
| Pm Height | 36 |
| Pm Author | Berger,Sidney E, Basbanes,Nicholas |
| Pm Longness | 283 |
- A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others
- Key Info: b/w photos, b/w illustrations
- Author: Berger,Sidney E, Basbanes,Nicholas
- Page Count: 574
- Publication Date: 2023-01-16
The Dictionary of the Book
- A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others
- Key Info: b/w photos, b/w illustrations
- Author: Berger,Sidney E, Basbanes,Nicholas
- Page Count: 574
- Publication Date: 2023-01-16
