ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA PDF

“An unmitigated delight for any bibliophile, Holbrook Jackson’s Anatomy of Bibliomania is the cornerstone of his indispensable trio of books on “”the usefulness. Let me say at the outset that this is not a book I intend to read soon in its entirety. The Anatomy of Bibliomania is extraordinary for above all the. ABOUT · CONTACT · BLOG · PROJECTS · HELP · DONATE · JOBS · VOLUNTEER · PEOPLE. Full text of “The Anatomy Of Bibliomania”. See other formats.

Author: Gajora Vunris
Country: Cape Verde
Language: English (Spanish)
Genre: Software
Published (Last): 8 March 2016
Pages: 272
PDF File Size: 4.90 Mb
ePub File Size: 14.29 Mb
ISBN: 271-8-53972-874-4
Downloads: 33342
Price: Free* [*Free Regsitration Required]
Uploader: Mikam

He touches on bindings, bookworms, libraries, and the sport of book hunting, as bibilomania as the behavior of borrowers, embezzlers, thieves, and collectors.

The most desirable books now reside in either the world’s great libraries or in the libraries of those who want yet another way to display their immense wealth.

To collect books for any other reason seems, to this reviewer, a kind of madness.

The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson

There is little doubt he manages to do so in the lengthy prose of his work, but he does so by piling source upon quote upon source with no thesis or purpose behind them.

Lists with This Book. Books by Holbrook Jackson. Selected pages Title Page. Jerry rated it liked it Feb 02, This is obviously useful territory for me, and I admired Jackson’s willingness to include opinions he did not share within his intricate enumerations.

Copyright bkbliomania the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Be the first to discover new talent! Entertaining as well as instructive, his “books on books” provide inveterate readers with all things needful: Rocky Crocker rated it it was amazing Oct 17, Matthew Smith rated it it was amazing Bibliomsnia 30, Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Unlike most manias, bibliomania is an ennobling affliction, worth cultivating, improving, and enjoying to its heights and depths.

  HAL CROOK READY AIM IMPROVISE PDF

These are those who, in short, read their books and own them TO read them. Feb 23, Lf rated it it was amazing Shelves: Be the first to ask a question about The Anatomy of Bibliomania. Bibliommania a book for the casual lover of books.

Return bibliomanja Book Page. There was a problem adding your email address. Unlike most manias, bibliomania is an ennobling affliction, worth cultivating, improving, and enjoying to its heights and depths.

The anatomy of bibliomania

An unmitigated delight for any bibliophile, Holbrook Jackson’s musings on the joys of reading combine his irrepressible wit with the wisdom of famous readers from all corners of the world. The kind of book collector that Jackson describes in this book is nearly extinct–at least in biblomania form in which Jackson describes him. Media reporter, reviewer, producer, guest booker, blogger. His sparkling commentary addresses why we read, where anatoy read on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet—this has “a long but mostly unrecorded history”—in bed, and in prison and what happens to us when we read.

August rated it it was amazing Jan 08, Quotes from The Anatomy of Bi To ask other readers questions about The Anatomy of Bibliomaniaplease sign up. Janis rated it it was ok Jan 09, Unless it is inherited or stolen the latter being one of the finer chapters in this booka library of the kind that Jackson describes here is all but entirely out of reach of the book lover of bibliomanis means.

Alebriand rated it it was amazing Dec 26, This particular book has been out of print for some time; read today, it seems a literary curiosity, a book difficult to use, though demanding use. Steve Booras rated it it was amazing Aug 02, They loved not just books, but literature as well, loving what books say and how they say it, how they speak to us across the centuries of the essentially unchanged human experience.

  ALV FORM GAUTENG PDF

Full text of “The Anatomy Of Bibliomania”

An unmitigated delight for any bibliophile, Holbrook Jackson’s Anatomy of Bibliomania bibbliomania the cornerstone of his indispensable trio of books on “the usefulness, purpose, and pleasures that proceed from books.

Violent reactions to books, whether from jealous wives, political hacks, or righteous church leaders, indicate books’ power over readers and their ability to inspire change.

Sowerby, Christian Science Monitor. Sign up here to receive your FREE alerts. Paperbackpages. Katie Chase rated it anztomy was amazing Oct 26, Even when Jackson wrote this book nearly a century ago, this process was nearly complete. These three volumes, now back in print, are a leisurely, luxuriant confabulation on “the usefulness, purpose, and pleasures that proceed from books.

I read this work over a period of several months.

Jackson’s cross-lights and unexpected illuminations are fascinating. Visions of the Press in Britain, Mark Hampton. Not even a book for the utterly devoted reader. Oct 01, Bryan Bivliomania rated it really liked it. With deliciously understated wit, anatoym comments on why we read, where we read–on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet this has “a long but mostly unrecorded history”in bed, and in prison–and what happens to us when we read.

He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.

The 20th century gave us the mass-produced book, and, though they anatomg not so glorious on the shelf as a row of Manutians bound in red calf, they fill a home with words and let us live in close proximity to the greatest minds of this and of past ages.

Posted in: Finance