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Author:

Willes, Margaret.

Title:

Reading matters : five centuries of discovering books / Margaret Willes.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvi, 295 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Book collectors--Great Britain.
Book collecting--England--History.
Book collectors--England--Biography.
Private libraries--England--History.
Book collectors--United States.
Book collecting--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-282) and index.

Contents:

Books do furnish a room: the books of Bess of Hardwick and the Cavendish Family -- Enjoyment of all that's worth seeking after: the books of Samuel Pepys -- Distance learning: three provincial libraries -- A founding father: the books of Thomas Jefferson -- Building a library: the books of Sir John Soane -- A little light reading?: Fact and fiction in Georgian Britain -- Rare and curious: the books of Charles Winn -- The common reader: books for working men and women -- Children of the Revolution: the books of Denis and Edna Healey -- Appendix: Equivalent values of the pound

ISBN:

0300127294 (hbk)
9780300127294 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)223871474

LCCN:

2008015557

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)