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Nicolas Barker

Autor/a de British Library Souvenir Guide

69+ obres 551 Membres 7 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Nicolas Barker OBE FBA has had a long and very distinguished career in the world of books. In publishing, he worked for Rupert Hart-Davis, Macmillan and OUP, and then for twenty years was Deputy Keeper at the British Library, responsible for Conservation
Crèdit de la imatge: Rare Book School

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Obres de Nicolas Barker

British Library Souvenir Guide (1998) 109 exemplars
Folio 40 (1987) 40 exemplars
Stanley Morison (1972) 17 exemplars
Hortus Eystettensis (1994) 13 exemplars
The book collector, Winter 2011 (2011) — Editor; Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 1974 (1974) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 23, no. 3, Autumn 1974 (1974) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter 1974 (1974) — Editor; Reviewer — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 1978 (1978) — Editor; Reviewer — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 1978 (1978) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 27, no. 3, Autumn 1978 (1978) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter 1978 (1978) — Editor; Reviewer — 1 exemplars
Caxton's Typography 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 39, no. 3, Autumn 1990 (1990) — Editor; Reviewer — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 1974 (1974) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer 1969 (1969) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter 1969 (1969) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The Book Collector. 1 exemplars
The Book Collector. Winter 2009. — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 18, no. 3, Autumn 1969 (1969) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1968 (1968) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer 1968 (1968) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 17, no. 3, Autumn 1968 (1968) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The book collector, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 1969 (1969) — Editor; Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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A short essay on the 1854 Two Poems which Barker suggests may have provided the inspiration for the Wiseian forgeries.
 
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JBD1 | Jan 24, 2024 |
Once I'd read the original cover-to-cover, finally, I had to turn right to the sequel. This updates the Enquiry very usefully, and provides much background on Forman, full transcriptions of the Forman-Wise correspondence, and much additional useful material.
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JBD1 | Mar 29, 2021 |
Includes Barker's essay: 'The rape of the Rylands' from The book collector about the sale by the John Rylands University Library of Manchester of 98 supposedly duplicate rare books in April 1988.
 
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jon1lambert | Mar 4, 2021 |
An excellent read. I collect books by and about J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and wanted to read this bio about the father-in-law who hated him so much. Nicolas Barker does a good job in reducing A.N.L. Munby's five-volume work on Sir Thomas Phillipps and his collections into one readable volume. I came away understanding why Phillipps hated his son-in-law so much, and why he is considered the world's greatest bibliomaniac. Previously I thought books were his passion – he wanted a copy of "every book published," – but it was manuscripts that were his primary passion. And his family suffered for his passion. Sir Thomas Phillipps was not a very nice man.… (més)
 
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moibibliomaniac | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 28, 2014 |

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Obres
69
També de
13
Membres
551
Popularitat
#45,290
Valoració
4.2
Ressenyes
7
ISBN
34

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