Dear colleagues,
If you will forgive an art librarian who has gone off the digital deep end
for commenting on a topic related to the analog world, I'd like to
recommend a wonderful exhibition catalogue written by Roger Stoddard -
happily and even surprisingly still available from Harvard University
Press - on "Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained". It deals not only
with owners marks (nobody who reads the book will ever wish to remove one
again except perhaps to protect a former owner's privacy from NSA
inquiries) but also with editor's marks, printer's marks, and the myriad
forms of evidence of ownership that make otherwise undistinguished books
take on a life of their own.
For the book see http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/STOMAR.html
As the saying goes, habent sua fata libelli, books have their stories.
Max Marmor
ARTstor
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