Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900

ISBN-13: 9780367590994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Annika Bautz; James Gregory

Opis

This book explores the practices of collectors of books, their networks and actions, as well as the book collections themselves, public and private, during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras to c.1900.

Recenzje

"The quality of the historical scholarship is high. Many of the papers offer fascinating insights into archival practices in little-known parts of the world... Above all, Manuscripts and Archives is to be applauded for traversing the divide that so often separates medieval and early-modern historians from their colleagues who study more remote societies. The inclusion of a solitary contribution from a practising archivist is a small but welcome bonus." - Geoffrey Yeo, Library & Information History

Spis treści

Introduction  Annika Bautz and James Gregory  Part I: Renaissance Collectors  1. Building a Library Without Walls: The Early Years of the Bodleian Library  Robyn Adams and Louisiane Ferlier  2. Universal Knowledge and Self-Fashioning: Cardinal Bernardino Spada’s Collection of Books  Giulia Weston  3. "A Paradise & Cabinet of Rarities": Thomas Browne, His Library, and Communities of Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Norfolk  Lucy Gwynn  4. Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: A "Collecting Friendship" as Told Through a Reevaluation of Manuscript PL 2237 and Print Album PL 2062 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge  Catherine Sutherland  Part II: Gentlemen and Their Libraries from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century  5. "Ye Best Tast of Books & Learning of Any Other Country Gentn": The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676–1692  Mary Chadwick and Shaun Evans  6. Fashioning a Gentleman’s Library: Displaying the Cottonian Collection, 1791–1816  Susan Leedham  7. "He Was Always Fond of Books": John Couch Adams’s Genesis as an Academic Collector  Sophie Defrance  Part III: Beyond Mere Records of Collecting: On Book Catalogues  8. From Francis Bacon’s Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson’s Literary History: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743–45)  Alex Wright  9. Booksellers’ Catalogues and Readership in the Luso-Brazilian World  Luciane Scarato  10. Reading in the Provinces: Plymouth Public Library’s Nineteenth-Century Catalogues  Annika Bautz  Part IV: Bibliomania  11. Satire and the Bibliomania in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain  Shayne Husbands  12. The "Fancy for Fine Printing": Collecting Whittaker’s Golden Magna Carta  James Gregory  13. Blurred Lines in the History of Domestic Libraries in the Age of Dibdin’s Bibliomania  Keith Manley

O autorze

Annika Bautz is Associate Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University.

James Gregory is Associate Professor in British History at the University of Plymouth.