Art of Memory

Yates, Frances A.

ISBN 10: 0710023383 / ISBN 13: 9780710023384

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1972

About this Item

400 pp. Tightly bound. Two corners lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good, price clipped, dust jacket. NOTE: This copy is the 1972 printing of the 1966 publication. PLEASE NOTE: There is some mottling to both the front and back boards. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art of Memory
• Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710023383
• ISBN 13: 9780710023384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good to Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dust Jackets
• Seller catalogs:
  • ML

About this title

Synopsis

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is marked and suffed. Edges are creased and nicked. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

From the Inside Flap

The Art of Memory is the classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page. In it, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.