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

Table of Contents

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