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Provenance literature


New provenance publication from Dresden


Studies in provenance of Estonian and foreign historical book collections, as well as the reconstruction of former private and family libraries. Under survey are ownership marks, reader's inscriptions, and notes of collectors from the 16th-20th centuries. Among the authors are old and rare book specialists and book historians from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Russia and England.
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This handbook surveys the different kinds of ownership evidence to be found in books and brings together a wide range of information and bibliographical references to provenance research. Features of this work include: a list of mottoes used by owners in the 16th and 17th centuries, donors’ registers for historic libraries, a survey of published and unpublished provenance indexes for libraries in Britain and North America, a list of bookplate collections and notes on booksellers’ catalogues.
Provenance indexes available in UK libraries – a selective update, September 2005
A supplement to the listing of provenance indexes in UK libraries found in chapter VII of David Pearson’s Provenance research in book history: a handbook (London, 1994, reprinted with addenda 1998). The list was prepared for the CILIP Rare Books Group conference ‘Whose book was it anyway?: Book ownership and Provenance’ (New Hall Cambridge, 7-9 September 2005).
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