Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900

Contents: Building a library without walls: The early years of the Bodleian Library / Robyn Adams and Louisiane Ferlier Universal knowledge and self-fashioning: Cardinal Bernardino Spada's collection of books / Giulia Weston "A paradise & cabinet of rarities': Thomas Browne, his library, and communities of collecting in seventeenth-century Norfolk / Lucy Gwynn Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: A "collecting friendship" as told through a reevaluation of manuscript PL 2237 and Print Album PL 2062 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge / Catherine Sutherland "Ye best tast of books & learning of any other country gentn": The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676-1692 / Mary Chadwick and Shaun Evans Fashioning a gentleman's library: Displaying the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816 / Susan Leedham "He was always fond of books": John Couch Adams's Genesis as an academic collector / Sophie Defrance From Francis Bacon's Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson's literary history: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743-45) / Alex Wright Booksellers' catalogues and readership in the Luso-Brazilian world / Luciane Scarato Reading in the provinces: Plymouth Public Library's nineteenth-century catalogues / Annika Bautz Satire and the bibliomania in early nineteenth-century Britain / Shayne Husbands The "fancy for fine printing": Collecting Whittaker's Golden Magna Carta / James Gregory Blurred lines in the history of domestic libraries in the age of Dibdin's bibliomania / Keith Manley