Nicholas Basbanes
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Nicholas Andrew Basbanes is an American author who writes and lectures about authors, books, and book culture. His subjects include the "eternal passion for books"; the history and future of libraries
Basbanes in China conducting research for his book, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History.
Nicholas A. Basbanes (National Archives)
Thomas Phillipps
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Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century. He was an illegitimate son of a textile ma
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire. The home of Phillipps' Middle Hill Press
Still life with ancient Babylonian artefacts on books, salted paper print, 1853, by Amelia Elizabeth Guppy
Thirlestaine House, Phillipps' home during the latter part of his life