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Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 972

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: George Watson
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1184

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Margaret Willes
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period—most of which have survived—showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women. Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.