In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered ...(展开全部)

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 弗雷德里克•乔治•凯尼恩爵士（Sir Frederic George Kenyon，1863—1952）是英国著名古典学家、圣经学家和古文书学家。1863年1月生于伦敦，先后就读于温切斯特公学和牛津大学新学院，毕业后1883年被遴选为牛津大学麦格达伦学院教研人员。1889年成为大英博物馆助理馆员，1898年被选为写本部副部长。1909年被任命为大英博物馆馆长、图书馆首席馆员，担任此职一直到1931年退休。其间，1912年被封为爵士，1913年担任古典学会会长，1917年成为英国人文与社会科学院院长，1918年成为英国皇家艺术学院古代史教授，1919年成为希腊学研究学会会长。 凯尼恩毕生致力于纸草文献的整理、研究和出版，著述颇丰，主要有：亚里士多德《雅典宪法》的首个校勘整理本以及英文翻译（1891, 1904, 1920），《大英博物馆所藏...(展开全部)

The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccac...(展开全部)

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." -- The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint,where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry.This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" w...(展开全部)

From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement." Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or l...(展开全部)

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous,...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 罗德里克 • 凯夫（Roderick Cave），印刷史学家和图书馆员，曾与世界各地的图书馆和大学合作，研究稀有书籍并开发了信息科学课程，《自然印象：自然印刷史》一书的作者。 萨拉 • 阿亚德（Sara Ayad），艺术史学家和图片研究人员，对书籍的历史特别感兴趣。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 潘亚薇，女，国际关系学院文学学士，南开大学翻译硕士，曾为 China Daily等知名媒体担任外聘翻译，参与北京奥运会等重大国际活动的翻译工作，曾担任高等教育出版社《爱阅读 • 新课标必读丛书》特约撰稿人，译有哈佛大学书店畅销书《爱上老去》，丹麦儿童文学“女巫克拉拉”系列之《烈火试炼》《遗忘诅咒》《奇美拉的复仇》《布拉维塔魔咒》等，曾受聘于天津青年职业学院及多家英语培训机构，担任英语阅读讲师，其教学成果广受好评。