An edition of The Scholar-Librarian (2005)
The Scholar-Librarian
Books, Libraries, and the Visual Arts
By Richard Wendorf
Publish Date
January 2005
Publisher
Oak Knoll Press,Boston Athenaeum
Language
eng
Pages
247
Description:
"In these essays Richard Wendorf's critical intelligence can be gauged in his analysis of works as diverse as the poetical manuscripts of Alexander Pope, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, and Piranesi's early etchings, as well as various typographical and bibliographical issues. But several of these essays also reveal another side of the author as he writes in a more personal (and often humorous) style about collecting, libraries, and librarianship. Both critically and professionally Wendorf is a problem-solver, and readers will relish joining him as he examines the precise relationship between Piranesi's ruins and the etching process or as he persuades a potential donor to present a fabled letter by John Keats to Harvard University."--BOOK JACKET.