Tanselle, G. Thomas

Portraits & [and] Reviews

Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2015. Hardcover. First edition with laid in typed slip reading "compliments of the author." "This volume brings together a selection of the biographical sketches and review that G. Thomas Tanselle has written since 1959. These two genres of writing focus on individuals; taken together they show how a biographical approach can serve to characterize a whole field - in this case, the world of books adn bibliographical and textual scholarship. Because the pieces gathered here deal with major figures and landmark works, along with representative (if less famous) ones, covering the wide spectrum of bibliography, the collection provides a pictures of what was going on in the scholarly book world of the past half-century. The twenty-eight portraits comprise accounts of, or tributes to, collectors, booksellers, librarians, scholarly editors, publishers, bibliographical scholars, literary and historical scholars, and authors ... The reviews section consists of forty-two pieces, mostly book reviews but also including some responses to essays, introductions to anthologies, and retrospective assessments" (jacket). Fine in blue cloth with gilt title to spine. In gold dust jacket with dark blue title to spine and front panels. Clean and bright. 485 pages. BOB/101823. Fine / Fine.

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