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Revolution and the antiquarian book: reshaping the past, 1780-1815

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1107000513 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781107000513 (hbk.)
Author	Jensen, Kristian 1954-
Title	Revolution and the antiquarian book : reshaping the past, 1780-1815 / [by] Kristian Jensen
Publisher	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
Physical desc.	x, 318 p. ; ill. (b&w), charts ; 26 cm.
Note	Author's revised version of his Lyell Lectures given at Oxford, in 2008.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-310) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Enlightenment ideas and revolutionary practice: incunabula and freedom -- Aristocratic aspirations and the wartime market: competing for the past and the future -- An object-based discipline emerges: old books, new luxury -- Competing for authority: 'the insolence of English wealth' -- Commemorating and obliterating the past: 'old books, very displeasing to the eye' -- Conclusion.
Subject	Book collecting -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
	Book collecting -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
	Incunabula -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
	Incunabula -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
	Antiquarian booksellers -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
	Antiquarian booksellers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
	Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
	Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
	Enlightenment -- Europe
	Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

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