Reading Matters

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Five Centuries of Discovering Books

By: Margaret Willes

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Paperback | 15 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period&;most of which have survived&;showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women.

Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.

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"'How do books furnish rooms - and minds? How have they been produced, sold, acquired, and read since William Caxton? These questions, always intriguing, are illuminated in this colourful bibliophilic excursion.' Jonathan Rose 'a wide-ranging history of readers and reading... a book rich in anecdote.' Christina Hardyment, Oxford Today 'Every now and again, an enchanting and delightful book appears which mixes real scholarship with eminently readable prose. Margaret Willes's Reading Matters is one such work... Books about books can be tricky affairs but this one is captivating; it is at once both instructive and entertaining. Anyone who loves books and their history will love Reading Matters.' Peter H. Reid, Library and Information History"

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Introduction	p. xiii
Books Do Furnish a Room: The Books of Bess of Hardwick and the Cavendish Family	p. 1
Enjoyment of all that's Worth Seeking After: The Books of Samuel Pepys	p. 28
Distance Learning: Three Provincial Libraries	p. 56
A Founding Father: The Books of Thomas Jefferson	p. 83
Building a Library: The Books of Sir John Soane	p. 109
A Little Light Reading?: Fact and Fiction in Georgian Britain	p. 136
Rare and Curious: The Books of Charles Winn	p. 168
The Common Reader: Books for Working Men and Women	p. 193
Children of the Revolution: The Books of Denis and Edna Healey	p. 233
Appendix: Equivalent Values of the Pound	p. 263
Notes	p. 264
Further Reading	p. 276
Index	p. 283
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