Description
About the Author
Sidney E. Berger was the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem; he is now that library's Director Emeritus. For the past 18 years he has been on the faculties of Simmons University and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, teaching rare-book classes in both institutions' library schools. He was also Curator of Printed Books and then Curator of Manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, and he headed the Special Collections Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is widely published in several fields, and his book Rare Books and Specials Collections won the 2015 ABC-CLIO/American Library Association award for the Best Book in Library Literature. He makes paper and casts type by hand, and he is the proprietor of the Doe Press, publishing short texts from handset types, printed on a handpress
Awards
Winner of Best Reference 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781538151327
Author Sidney E. Berger
Format Hardback
Page Count 574
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 1579g
Dimensions(mm) 283mm * 229mm * 35mm
