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Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850

Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850
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ISBN 184682737X (hbk.)
9781846827372 (hbk.)
Title Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850 / Elizabethanne Boran, editor
Publisher Dublin : Published for the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland and the Trustees of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin by Four Courts Press, 2018
Physical desc. xiii, 255 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, facsimiles, portraits (colour) ; 25 cm.
Note "This volume arises from a conference, organized by the British Book History Research Network, the Edward Worth Library and the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, which was held at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, in November 2016"--Introduction.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Elizabethanne Boran -- Readers or collectors? Manuscripts and books in the lives of Irish scholars in late seventeenth-century Connacht / Bernadette Cunningham -- A tale of two seventeenth-century libraries: the books and world views of a Limerick patrician family and a Cork landowner / Marc Caball -- The Otway-Maurice collection: ecclesiastical collecting in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / Barbara McCormack -- Dr Edward Worth: a connoisseur book collector in early eighteenth-century Dublin / Elizabethanne Boran -- James Hardiman: book collector / Marie Boran -- Collection by donation: the benefactors’ registers of Oxford college libraries in the seventeenth century / William Poole -- Motives for book collecting in late seventeenth-century England / David Pearson -- ‘Calculated for instruction and entertainment’: lending libraries in Georgian Leeds / Rebecca Bowd‘ -- The finest theological library in the world’: the rise and fall of the Bibliotheca Sussexiana / Gabriel Moshenska -- A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskines of Alva and their books / Karen Baston -- The country house library in Scotland / Mark Purcell -- The library as a weapon of state: the pamphlet collection of Gaspar Fagel in Trinity College, Dublin / Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen.
Subject Book collecting -- Ireland -- History
Book collecting -- Great Britain -- History
Book collectors -- Ireland -- Biography
Book collectors -- Great Britain -- Biography
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