Guide to Book History and Care

Description

CIM Albert Le livre: historic, manufacturing, buying, classification, use, and maintenance. Paris, Flammarion, 1905. 12 x 18 cm, volumes 2 to 5, 374, 398, 415, 544 pages, half-leather binding (missing the spine of one volume, some wear, covers preserved). Volume 2 discusses history, religion in literature, early readings, various reading methods, book selection, bibliomanes and bibliolaters, biblioclasts and bibliophobes, women and books, book lending, etc.; volume 3 covers manufacturing: paper, format, printing, illustration, binding; volume 4 deals with book buying, library layout and book organization, catalogs and classification; volume 5 addresses book usage and care, appendix: abbreviations, Latin phrases, Roman numerals, typographical signs, etc., proof corrections, general index. Volume one is missing.