Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, And Special Collections

by Robert H. Jackson (Editor), Carol Zeman Rothkopf (Editor)

Following in the tradition of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Michael Sadlier, Book Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting and Special Collectionstakes the reader on a tour of some major ideas and controversies now current in the rare book world. Robert H. Jackson has assembled these writings of an eminent group of scholors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, and collectors that address issues facing contemporary society. Topics such as the future of the book in a printed-format, the internet and collecting trends are some of the issues discussed. This important work belongs on the reading list of all book lovers.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2006

About the author

Robert H. Jackson is a specialist in colonial and modern Latin American history. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. His research interests include liberalism, the caste system, historical demography, and missions and evangelization. In 2013, Brill published his monograph Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Mexico: The Augustinian War on and beyond the Chichimeca Frontier. Jackson currently lives in Mexico City.

Reviews

[Cacology · Rating 4 out of 5]

Various essays on books. Includes overview of changes in the book, Garrett Scott discussing "low spots" in literature, Martin L. Greene discussing the Aurora Australis (1908), bookselling, Ken Lopez about the maturing of the rare book market (expensive higher, middle glut, lower major glut; information is the value but not rewarded), Robert H. Jackson on soliciting donors, Stoddard about what a librarian can do, Samuel Streit discussing special collections (depth and breadth).