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• Title:The encyclopedia of ephemera : a guide to the fragmentary documents of everyday life for the collector, curator, and historian / Maurice Rickards ; edited and completed by Michael Twyman, with the assistance of Sally de Beaumont and Amoret Tanner.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rickards, Maurice, 1919-1998.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Twyman, Michael.
  De Beaumont, Sally.
  Tanner, Amoret.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Routledge, 2001, ©2000.
  

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  • Call Number: NC1280 .R52 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Printed ephemera--Dictionaries.
  Printed ephemera--Collectors and collecting.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ephemera
  
• Genre/Form: Dictionaries.
  
• Description:x, 402 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
  
• Summary:"With more than 400 entries on paper collectibles from the most obscure to the most common, this outstanding source is arranged alphabetically and provides written descriptions and photographs of anything from an ABC primer from 19th-century London to winkle bags. This is truly a source to be consulted by collectors or anyone looking for a glimpse of the past."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001
  "Ephemera is the plural form of the Greek word ephemeron (Epi=on, about, round; Hemera=day). Literally, it refers to something that lasts through the day, or, as Maurice Rickards proposed, the minor transient documents of everyday life, although not every item of ephemera can be regarded as transient or even minor. Collectively the many entries in this formidable new reference work provide a better definition of ephemera, since they include manuscript and printed matter (sports programs, envelopes, visiting cards, ballots), records of the past and present (newspapers, cigarette cards, seed packets, ration papers), items designed to be thrown away (bus tickets, paper bags, fruit labels), and to be kept (bookmarks, playing cards, board games). This lavishly illustrated landmark volume is intended for social historians as well as collectors of ephemera who take a broader view than their own specialist field.--Book Jacket
  
• Notes:"Reprinted with minor corrections."--Verso title page.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.
  
• ISBN:0415926483
  9780415926485