Scribners
Five Generations in Publishing
$56.76
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2023
Summary
Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner’s Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore down to the present-day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—“between the covers” of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781493079971 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1493079972 |
| Author: | Charles Scribner III |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Imprint: | The Lyons Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 149mm x 30mm |
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Praise for the author’s earlier books:
“Charles Scribner has revived the art form of ‘personal history’ with verve, style, and magical description.”–Andrew M. Greeley, author of The Catholic Myth
About The Author
Charles Scribner III
Charles Scribner III received his PhD in art history from Princeton University in 1977. He taught Baroque art in Princeton’s department of Art and Archaeology, where he later served on its advisory council, and joined his father at the family publishing house Charles Scribner’s Sons. With Talleyrand as his model, he remained at Scribners through three changes in ownership (Macmillan, Maxwell, and Viacom), overseeing the publication of its literary classics. He was a commentator for television documentaries on Edith Wharton (BBC/PBS), Fitzgerald and Hemingway (A&E Biography).
As an art historian, Scribner has lectured on Baroque art at universities and museums–the Metropolitan, National Gallery, Getty, Frick, and Morgan Library. His books include The Triumph of the Eucharist: Tapestries by Rubens (1982), Rubens (1989), Bernini (1991), The Shadow of God (2006), Home by Another Route (2016), and Sacred Muse (2023). His favorite assignment was an undercover operation for U.S. Customs special agents in Miami Beach in 1991 to trap art thieves and recover a stolen Rubens oil sketch. In 2003 he appeared in the BBC/Bravo documentary The Rubens Robbers about the successful mission.
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