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02076aam a2200325 i 4500 001 0C1AB6DE8C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230104011844 008 220408t20222022ctua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2021914124 020 $a 9780300248487 (hardcover) 020 $a 0300248482 035 $a (OCoLC)1309867367 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d UUC $d ZNS $d BDX $d TOH $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a Z987.5.U6 $b G54 2022 082 04 $a 002.0750973 $2 23 100 1 $a Gigante, Denise, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Book madness : $b a story of book collectors in America / $c Denise Gigante. 260 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xviii, 378 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends-caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America-booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen-Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries. 600 10 $a Lamb, Charles, $d 1775-1834 $x Library. 650 0 $a Book collecting $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Book collectors $z United States. 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010516.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C1AB6DE8C0011EDA40A627456ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search