Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit: The Noble Art of Collecting, Book One

by Mari Shaw

A meditation on the ways the library and the book has shaped life and history.

Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit is the first of Mari Shaw's series The Noble Art of Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it. What was lost when the scrolls in the ancient library of Alexandria...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956793463
• ISBN13: 9783956793462
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"