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Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given individual collector. The love of books is ''bibliophilia'', and someone who loves to read, admire, and collect books is a ''bibliophile''. Bibliophile book collecting is distinct from casual book ownership and the accumulation of books for reading. It can probably be said to have begun with the collections of illuminated manuscripts, both commissioned and second-hand, by the elites of Burgundy and France in particular, which became common in the 15th century. Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy appears to have had the largest private collection of his day, with about six hundred volumes. With the advent of printing with movable type books became considerably cheaper, and book collecting received a particular impetus in England and elsewhere during the Reformation when many monastic libraries were broken up, and their contents often destroyed. There was an English antiquarian reaction to Henry VIII's dissolution of the Monasteries. The commissioners of Edward VI plundered and stripped university, college, and monastic libraries, so to save books from being destroyed, those who could began to collect them. Book collecting can be easy and inexpensive: there are millions of new and used books, and thousands of bookstores, including online booksellers like Abebooks, Alibris, Amazon, and Biblio.com. Only the wealthiest book collectors pursue the great rarities: the Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio are, for example, both famous and extremely valuable. Collectors of average means may collect works by a favorite author, first editions of modern authors, or books on a given subject. Book prices generally depend on the demand for a given book, the number of copies available, and the book's condition. There are associations that collectors may join. The Fine Press Book Association is aimed at collectors of modern fine printing, and produces its journal, ''Parenthesis'', twice a year. The Private Libraries Association covers modern fine printing too, but is much more general in its outlook and produces a quarterly journal, ''the Private Library''. ==Genres, themes, and interests== There are millions of books, so collectors necessarily specialize in one or more genres or subgenres of literature. A reader of fiction, who enjoys Westerns, might decide to collect first editions of Zane Grey's novels. A lover of modern English poetry might collect the works of W H Auden. A Californian who prefers non-fiction might look for books about the history of the San Francisco Bay Area. Individual interests may include: * A particular author or genre or field of study (science, medicine, history, etc.) * A particular illustrator * Award winning books * Books as Art * Bindings and/or Book design. The Grolier Club has since 1884 been interested in the "... study of the arts pertaining to the production of books...". * Comic books and Graphic novels * Cover or dust jacket art * First editions * Fore-edge paintings * Illustrated books * Incunabula: books printed before 1501 * Limited editions * Local/Regional interests * Marginalia * Miniature books * The publisher and/or printer * *Fine press books * *Private press books * *Small presses * Paper, parchment, or vellum * Series * Photoplay editions * Signed books: inscribed/signed by an author or illustrator * Special editions, similar but not always the same as limited editions. * Stages of publication: advance review copies, galley proofs Related collecting interests include collecting bookplates, autographs, and ephemera. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book collecting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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