A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England
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2008
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| Contributors |
Author:
David Allan |
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| Number of Pages |
281 pp.
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The British Library
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| City |
London, England
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| ISBN |
9780712349673
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| Annotation |
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
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