Reading Matters (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2010-02-02
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
90 black-&-white illustrations
Illustrationer
90 b-w illus.
Dimensioner
224 x 156 x 21 mm
Vikt
558 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300164046

Reading Matters

Five Centuries of Discovering Books

av Margaret Willes
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-02-02
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An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period-most of which have survived-showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women. Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.
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"'How do books furnish rooms - and minds? How have they been produced, sold, acquired, and read since William Caxton? These questions, always intriguing, are illuminated in this colourful bibliophilic excursion.' Jonathan Rose 'a wide-ranging history of readers and reading... a book rich in anecdote.' Christina Hardyment, Oxford Today 'Every now and again, an enchanting and delightful book appears which mixes real scholarship with eminently readable prose. Margaret Willes's Reading Matters is one such work... Books about books can be tricky affairs but this one is captivating; it is at once both instructive and entertaining. Anyone who loves books and their history will love Reading Matters.' Peter H. Reid, Library and Information History"

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Margaret Willes, the former Publisher for the National Trust, has written and illustrated numerous books. She lives in London.

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