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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Ephemera is the plural form of the Greek word ephemeron, which comes from "epi", meaning "on", "about" or "round", and "hemeron", meaning "day". |
 | | Literally, it refers to something that lasts throughout 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. |
 | | The volume is intended for social historians, reference librarians, students of printing and graphic design and for collectors of ephemera who take a broader view than their own specialist field. |
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