This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested reade

An eclectic view of the book and manuscript collecting and bibliographical activity during nineteenth century Britain is presented. Subjects range from the weal

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Essays on British book collectors and bibliographers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This period marked the growth of humanism and coincid