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Author Willes, Margaret.

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

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]
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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  002.075 WILLES    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
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.
ISBN 9780300127294 hardback
0300127294 hardback
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