C-90. Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections - Advance Reading List

• Preliminary Advices

  Admitted students are encouraged to review at least some of the following books in advance of the course; however, a thorough study of every title listed here is not a prerequisite for course participation. Detailed bibliographies will be distributed during the course, dealing with the various areas covered, and extensive preliminary reading is not necessary. 

  It will be assumed that students are familiar with the essentials of historical bibliography and with handling early printed books (otherwise, please see Philip Gaskell’s A New Introduction to Bibliography).

   

  It would be useful to look at David Pearson’s handbook, on which the course is based, as an introduction to the main topics covered:

  Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook. Oxford and New Castle: Bodleian Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2019.

   

  Beyond that the following references are relevant to different aspects of the course and looking over them will give good background, in advance of attending:

  Acheson, Katherine, ed. Early Modern English Marginalia. New York and London: Routledge, 2019.

  Dane, Joseph A. What is a Book?  Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2012.

  Lee, Brian North. British Bookplates: A Pictorial History. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1979.

  Orgel, Stephen. The Reader in the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  Sherman, William H. Used Books. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

  Stoddard, Roger. “Looking at Marks in Books.” Gazette of the Grolier Club 51 (2000): 27–47

  If anyone would like to undertake more background reading in advance of the course, have a look at chapter 10 of Pearson’s Provenance Research Handbook (works on provenance, book collecting and private library history).