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Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Inscriptions, mottoes & other manuscript additions
• 3. Bookplates & book labels
• 4. Book stamps & stencils
• 5. Bookbindings & external features
• 6. Sale catalogues
• 7. Catalogues & lists of private libraries
• 8. Provenance indexes to libraries
• 9. Heraldry, palaeography & tracing owners
• 10. Works on provenance, book collecting & private library history
• Appendix. Mottoes used by individual book owners
• Picture references
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Pearson, David, 1955- , author

Contributors:

Bodleian Library , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Oak Knoll Press , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Provenance research in book history: a handbook [by Pearson, D.]

Subjects:

Books — Provenance — Research — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Book collecting — Great Britain — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Books — Owners' marks — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Library catalogs — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Books — Provenance

Books

Research

Book collecting

Books — Owners' marks

Library catalogs

Great Britain

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

"This new edition follows the structure of the original, but has been completely rewritten, with a mostly new (and enlarged) set of illustrations."--Page ix.
Includes half-title page.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

xi, 436 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

Z987.5.G7 P43 2019

ISBNs:

9781584563648 (North America, hardback, alkaline paper)
1584563648 (North America, hardback, alkaline paper)
9781851245109 (UK, hardback)
1851245103 (UK, hardback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018054340

OCLC Numbers:

1081338600