TY - SER
AU - David Allan
CY - London, England
LA - English
N1 - Received the 2010 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field.

Contents:
A taste of polite writing" : readers and reading in Georgian England 
An able tutor and agreeable companion" : book clubs and reading societies 
"An ample fund of amusement and instruction" : the subscription libraries 
"Inlets of vice and debauchery" : the circulating libraries 
"Our publick library" : other institutional collections 
"I have not read so many books for nothing" : reading and the making of a polite public
PB - The British Library
PP - London, England
PY - 2008
SN - 9780712349673
EP - 281 pp.
TI - A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England
ER -