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the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History

is an innovative new journal which addresses the theme of the material text from a range of perspectives, bringing together the critical, historical, theoretical and creative.

ISSN 2634-7229 (Online)


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Author: Alice Wickenden

Alice Wickenden is finishing a collaborative PhD with the British Library and Queen Mary, University of London, titled ‘Hans Sloane’s Library and its Material Connections’. She works on bringing theories of collecting and institutional practice into conversation with the material book in order to understand what it means to talk about a library as a distinct sort of collection. Alice has forthcoming work in Publishing History.
Things to Know before Beginning, or: Why Provenance Matters in the Library
Issue 1 Posted by Alice Wickenden

If you are in a library, looking at a book, what do you really need to know about its beginnings? Do you need to know how, or why, it arrived in its current location? Many readers do, of course, engage in some form of provenance research –  whether because they are explicitly interested in a past…

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