This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers andthe volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period - most of which have survived - showing thediversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women.
- ISBN: 978-0-300-16404-6
- Editorial: Yale University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés