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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
440
Utgivningsdatum
1999-02-01
Upplaga
annotated ed
Förlag
D.S. Brewer
Illustrationer
8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 15 mm
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780859914710

A Radical's Books

The Library Catalogue of Samuel Jeake of Rye [1623-90]

av Michael Hunter, Giles Mandelbrote, Richard Ovenden Nigel Smith
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1999-02-01
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The library owned by Samuel Jeake of Rye, nonconformist and local activist, was one of the most remarkable of its time. It is of particular importance in that relatively little information has hitherto been available about the ownership of books in the English provinces, or the reading habits of intellectuals who - like Jeake -were outside London and university circles from which most surviving libraries have come down to us. The collection of some 1500 volumes includes an extraordinary assemblage of radical pamphlets from the English Revolution alongside works of theology, literature, scholarship and science. Other books reflect astrological and magical interests, and the collection also includes a medical library. Jeake's library catalogue, published here, gives much information about titles that are now lost, about the penetration of foreign books into provincial England, and about book prices. The introduction places Jeake's collection in context, and makes a significant contribution to the history of the book in the early modern period; appendices list surviving volumes from the library and give a complete list of the Jeake manuscripts now in Rye Museum. MICHAEL HUNTER is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London; GILES MANDELBROTE is a Curator, British Collections 1501-1800, at the British Library; RICHARD OVENDEN is Deputy Head, Rare Books Division of the National Library of Scotland; NIGEL SMITH is Reader in English at the University of Oxford.
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Michael Hunter, Giles Mandelbrote, Richard Ovenden Nigel Smith

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Part 1 Introduction: Samuel Jeake (1623-90) and his library; Jeake's life and milieu; the library "register"; Jeake's book-collecting in context; the library's content; using the library; the fate of the library. Part 2 A register of all my bookes, pamphlets, manuscripts, & fragments. Appendixes: loose papers inserted in the library register; surviving volumes from the Jeake library; catalogue of the Jeake manuscripts at Rye Museum.

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