Literature and Artifacts

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xvii, 355 pages. First edition. Fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects (primarily manuscripts and printed books) that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography,"… Read more about this item