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Property of a gentleman: the formation, organisation and dispersal of the private library 1620-1920

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0906795990
Title	Property of a gentleman : the formation, organisation and dispersal of the private library 1620-1920 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris
Publisher	Winchester : St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1991
Series	Publishing pathways
Contents	The emergence of the book auctioneer as a professional / Frank Herrmann. -- The library as living room / Clive Wainwright. -- 'To Paul's Churchyard to treat with a bookbinder' / Esther Potter. -- Gentlemen and their book-plates / Brian North Lee. -- Was Henry Yates Thompson a gentleman? / Christopher de Hamel. -- The ill-gotten library of 'Honest Tom' Martin / David Stoker. -- Reading as pastime: the place of light literature in some gentlemen's libraries of the 17th century / T. A. Birrell. -- William Herbert: his library and his friends / Robin Myers.
Subject	Private libraries -- Great Britain -- History
	Book collecting -- Great Britain -- History
	Early printed books -- Great Britain -- Bibliography
Added name(s)	Myers, Robin ed.
Added name(s)	Harris, Michael 1938- ed.
Meeting Name	Conference on Book Trade History ((12th ) . 1991 , University of London)

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
10003383	027.141 MYE	RL		. *, Permanent Loan .