Brothers in Spirit. Some Notes on the How-to of Book Collecting
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: John Ferguson (1838–1916) & Duke August the Younger (1579–1666)People collect books for different reasons: out of interest in certain topics, out of bibliophile passion or to accumulate cultural capital. And books can be like elixirs. As the poet John Milton so poignantly put it in Areopagitica (1644): ‘Books are not absolutely dead things (...), they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.’ Everything suggests that books are more...
Source: Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
DOI: 10.58079/13ayu
Author: Stefan Laube
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6936560335
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