TY - SER
AU - Robin Myers
AU - Michael Harris
CY - Winchester, England
LA - English
N1 - Essays exploring how British private collectors amassed, organized and displayed their libraries.

Contents:
The emergence of the book auctioneer as a professional / Frank Herrmann 
The library as living room / Clive Wainwright 
'To Paul's Churchyard to treat with a bookbinder' / Esther Potter 
Gentlemen and their book-plates / Brian North Lee 
Was Henry Yates Thompson a gentleman? / Christopher de Hamel 
The ill-gotten library of 'Honest Tom' Martin / David Stoker 
Reading as pastime : the place of light literature in some gentlemen's libraries of the 17th century / T.A. Birrell 
William Herbert: his library and his friends / Robin Myers.
PB - St. Paul's Bibliographies
PP - Winchester, England
PY - 1991
SN - 9780906795996
EP - 164 pp.
TI - Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library, 1620-1920
ER -