Robin Myers Livres

Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from individual copies and piecing together the documentary evidence to provide this narrative. In this volume, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. "Books on the Move" represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade.

This work is a Publishing Pathway's edition of nine scholarly essays that were presented at the 2000 Birkbeck conference at the University of England. The subject at this conference was book auctions from 17th century to the present. Nine leading bibliographical scholars, among them, Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote, Nigel Ramsey, T.A. Birrell, and Otto S. Lankhorst presented essays.