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There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell. Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially for his works published in the 1930s. Even secondhand bookshops have a paucity of battered paperbacks... more

There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell.
Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially
for his works published in the 1930s. Even secondhand bookshops
have a paucity of battered paperbacks on display. Orwell sells and
readers hold on to their copies.

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  • George Orwell, Bibliomania, Collecting, Bibliomancy

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007) was a self-taught intellectual, an inquisitive bibliophile and a passionate book collector with a great interest in European history and art history. Kitajá colourful and occasionally provocative... more

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007) was a self-taught intellectual, an inquisitive bibliophile and a passionate book collector with a great interest in European history and art history. Kitajá colourful and occasionally provocative compositions are full of political, philosophical, literary and art-historical references. His works depict a world dominated by displacement as a Jew and as an American, living and working in post-war Europe, weeking for means to express his identity in his art. The publication offers an insight into Kitaj's bibliophile and engaged Jewish sensibility with a focus on his screen-printed reproductions of book covers, In Our Time, published in 1969-1970 as a playfull project in which he demonstrated the pleasure he derived, both as an artist and a book collector, from certain editions: the title, the content, the jacket or the memories and associations they evoked for him.

• • by Mirjam Knotter
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  • Jewish Artists, Jewish Art History, Bibliomania, Jewish Art

Trata do papel social exercido pelo bibliófilo enquanto preservador da cultura impressa. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, a presente monografia procura traçar o percurso histórico do livro desde a antiguidade até o momento presente,... more

Trata do papel social exercido pelo bibliófilo enquanto preservador da cultura impressa. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, a presente monografia procura traçar o percurso histórico do livro desde a antiguidade até o momento presente, enfatizando a evolução tecnológica por que passaram os suportes e a relevância de sua materialidade enquanto objeto físico. Discorre sobre a prática do colecionismo e as características dos colecionadores, enfatizando as definições de coleção e de objeto. Conceitua a bibliofilia, examinando seus aspectos, como definição de obras raras, características físicas e materialidade, critérios de raridade. Apresenta algumas tipografias e associações de bibliófilos nacionais e internacionais, e a breve biografia de dois bibliófilos brasileiros, José Mindlin e Rubens Borba de Moraes. Discorre sobre a bibliomania e os ladrões de obras raras. Analisa a contribuição dos bibliófilos para a preservação do livro como objeto a partir do tratamento especial por eles dedicado aos livros e sua importância enquanto guardiães do conhecimento. Examina as vantagens da digitalização das obras raras para a preservação do objeto livro e a disseminação de seu conteúdo. Verifica a importância das coleções particulares na formação de bibliotecas públicas e nacionais. Constata-se que o bibliófilo pode exercer um papel social ao permitir o acesso à sua coleção, seja facilitando a pesquisa, seja doando ou vendendo seu acervo a uma instituição pública, cujo foco é a recuperação e disseminação do conhecimento.

• • by Fábio P ROSA
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  • Imprensa, Bibliomania, Biblioteconomia, Bibliofilia
• • by Nathalia D E C A S T R O Lavigne
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  • Contemporary Art, Michel Foucault, Visual Arts, Bibliomania
• • by Natale Vacalebre
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  • Rare Books and Manuscripts, History Of Rare Book Libraries, Collecting and Collections, Book Reviews
• • by Marisa Midori Deaecto
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  • History of the Book, Typography, Bibliomania, History of Books, Printing, and Publishing
• • by Arnd Wedemeyer
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  • Media Archaeology, Book History, History of the Book, Jorge Luis Borges
• • by Guido Guerzoni
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  • Collection Development, Archives, Digital Collections, Compulsive Hoarding
• • by Joan Passey
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  • Book History, Bibliography, Eighteenth Century History, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture
• • by Sarah Bull
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  • Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Book History, History of the Book
• • by Guido Guerzoni
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  • Material Culture Studies, Archives, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Compulsive Hoarding
• • by insula europea
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  • Bibliography, Bibliomania, Bibliofilia

14th ESSE conference : S39 Dickensian Key Words seminar (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 29 August – 2 September 2018) In Bleak House, Krook is presented as a monomaniac, or more precisely, a bibliomaniac who collects papers... more

• • by Céline Prest
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  • Charles Dickens, Bibliomania, Bleak House, Monomania

In 1962 writers, artists, and lovers Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were convicted and sentenced to six months’ incarceration for ‘malicious damage’ of library books. Orton and Halliwell removed library books from their local library and... more

• • by Melissa Hardie
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  • Queer Theory, Databases, Joe Orton, Bibliomania
• • by Victoria Mills
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  • Victorian Masculinity, Bibliomania, Book Collecting