David McKitterick
Biographic Data
| ID | 5765688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David McKitterick |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | McKitterick |
| SIGNATURE | MCKITTERICK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Readers in a Revolution
The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of, and scholars worked together to transform how the history of printing was understood. These dramatic changes would have profound consequences for bibliographical study and collecting, accompanied…
Readers in a Revolution
Communities of Print
"Communities of Print: Books and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe, edited by Rosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy." Library & Information History, 38(1), p. 79
Burning the Books
The Brand of Print
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The Invention of Rare Books
When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that …
Invention of Rare Books
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Angela Nuovo. The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Library of the Written Word 26; The Handpress World 20. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvii + 474 pp. $189. ISBN: 978-90-04-24547-1. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Old Books, New Technologies
Publishing and Perishing in Classics
PUBLISHING AND PERISHING IN CLASSICS: E. H. BARKER AND THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK TRADES Get access DAVID MCKITTERICK DAVID MCKITTERICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 7–33, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02523.x Published: 06 February 2014
The Atlas Blaeu–Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library
In 2006, the Atlas Blaeu–Van der Hem was the centrepiece of a wide-ranging study by Erlend de Groot, The World of a Seventeenth-Century Collector. As its title implies, it was a study in contexts
The History of Cartography at the Crossroads
Lost Libraries
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity, ed. James Raven (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004; pp. 294. £50). Iraq, Bosnia, Norwich, Florence. Recent major losses stick in the mind, and the list goes back to antiquity. This collection of essays is not just about those libraries, now ‘lost’, that have been bombed, burned or flooded, but also those that have been deliberately destroyed by more painstaking processes, such a…
Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America
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Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America
Lost Libraries
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity, ed. James Raven (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004; pp. 294. £50). Iraq, Bosnia, Norwich, Florence. Recent major losses stick in the mind, and the list goes back to antiquity. This collection of essays is not just about those libraries, now ‘lost’, that have been bombed, burned or flooded, but also those that have been deliberately destroyed by more painstaking processes, such a…
The History of Cartography at the Crossroads
The Atlas Blaeu–Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library
In 2006, the Atlas Blaeu–Van der Hem was the centrepiece of a wide-ranging study by Erlend de Groot, The World of a Seventeenth-Century Collector. As its title implies, it was a study in contexts
Old Books, New Technologies
Publishing and Perishing in Classics
PUBLISHING AND PERISHING IN CLASSICS: E. H. BARKER AND THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK TRADES Get access DAVID MCKITTERICK DAVID MCKITTERICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 7–33, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02523.x Published: 06 February 2014
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Angela Nuovo. The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Library of the Written Word 26; The Handpress World 20. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvii + 474 pp. $189. ISBN: 978-90-04-24547-1. - Volume 67 Issue 2
The Invention of Rare Books
When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that …
Invention of Rare Books
Burning the Books
The Brand of Print
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Readers in a Revolution
The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of, and scholars worked together to transform how the history of printing was understood. These dramatic changes would have profound consequences for bibliographical study and collecting, accompanied…
Readers in a Revolution
Communities of Print
"Communities of Print: Books and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe, edited by Rosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy." Library & Information History, 38(1), p. 79
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