Unter verkleideter Literatur sind solche Druckschriften zu verstehen, die auf ihren Titelblät-tern über den Inhalt des Druckes, über die Verfasserschaft und/oder über die Umstände des Erscheinens irreführende Angaben machen und damit die wahren Sachverhalte „verkleiden“. Gewöhnlich wird auch der Fall, dass gar keine Angaben gemacht und der wahre Sachverhalt verschwiegen wird, zur verkleideten Literatur gerechnet.
This website compiles, by year, four different lists of books published during the twentieth century: 1. The top ten bestsellers in fiction, as recorded by Publishers Weekly. 2. The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly. 3. The main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which was founded in 1926. 4. Critically acclaimed and historically significant books, as identified by consulting various critics' and historians' lists of important books.
Welcome to French Emblems at Glasgow. This website gives you access to all the French Emblem Books of the 16th century, along with their Latin versions when appropriate. While the seed of the emblem as a genre was sown in Germany in 1531, it flowered and developed in France during the 16th century, and it was from there that it spread throughout Europe.
Dictionary of Terms and Expressions Commonly Used in the Antiquarian Book Trade. - In English, French, German and Italian. "Contrary to common practice, this dictionary contains as few words as possible. I have limited the terms, to those used by antiquarian booksellers, which are not to be found in the usual bilingual, trilingual, or multilingual dictionaries. " Edgar Franco's "Dictionary" was published by the ILAB in 1994. It is available as a pdf file, and as a print version.