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Reading matters

five centuries of acquiring books

By Willes, Margaret

Publishers Summary:
"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 investigates the means by which books were sold, lending 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 many illustrations will inform, entertain and inspire."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

978-0-30012-729-4

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.