Tome, Sweet Tome At the Rare Book School; Collectors, Curators Learn Volumes About The Publishing Craft

The Washington Post | August 11, 2001| | Copyright

This handsome, antiquated city has long been a casual bibliophile's delight, with overstuffed and well-priced secondhand bookstores scattered throughout its compact downtown.

But the dozens of scholars who descended on a steaming Charlottesville over the past three weeks were hardly "casual" in their devotion to the printed word. Instead, they were here to attend courses like "Printing, Publishing and Consuming Texts in Britain and Its Empire: 1770-1919," "Japanese Printmaking: 1615-1868" and "History of European and American Papermaking" -- courses offered by the Rare Book School at the ...

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