Stuart Kells
Autore di The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
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Stuart Kells is an author based in Australia. He has a PhD from Monash University. He is also an antiquarian books authority and runs Books of Kells which issues fine and rare book catalogues and exhibits at book fairs. His own books include Rare: A life among antiquarian books and Penguin and the mostra altro Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution. He has a PhD from Monash University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Stuart Kells
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Kells, Stuart
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
Utenti
Discussioni
A wondrous history of libraries from Stuart Kells in Book talk (Febbraio 2020)
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 544
- Popolarità
- #45,827
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 37
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 2
That's the summary. The rest of the book is padded out with hagiography about the Alice creator and all his friends and contacts, including at the lowest point two chapters about a writer's dogs. The interesting bits were the early descriptions of the international finance systems, and the details of the Byzantine US legal system. I didn't come away with the sense that Alice's patents were really so ground-breaking, or even what they were supposed to do. Alice did not change the world.… (altro)