The new bibliopolis : French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 / Willa Z. Silverman.

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008], ©2008.

xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : the new bibliopolis -- 1. Books worthy of our era? Octave Uzanne, technology, and the luxury book -- 2. Ancients against moderns : bibliophilia at the fin de siècle -- 3. Everything to the moderns : independent and contemporary bibliophiles -- 4. Artist and amateur in the creation of fin-de-siècle Illustrated books -- 5. Unpacking his library : Robert de Montesquiou and the aesthetics of the book -- 6. The enemies of books? Women and the bibliophilic imagination -- 7. Conclusion : the end of books?

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-288) and index.

Title and text in English ; with some text in French.