The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources u

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across E

This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these c

This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with arch

Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.