Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 16001900
This book presents the collectors roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.
Annika Bautz is Associate Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth.
James Gregory is Associate Professor in British History at the University of Plymouth.
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Contents
ANNIKA BAUTZ AND JAMES GREGORY
PART I
Renaissance Collectors
ROBYN ADAMS AND LOUISIANE FERLIER
GIULIA MARTINA WESTON
LUCY GWYNN
CATHERINE SUTHERLAND
PART II
Gentlemen and Their Libraries From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
MARY CHADWICK AND SHAUN EVANS
SUSAN LEEDHAM
SOPHIE DEFRANCE
PART III
Beyond Mere Records of Collecting: On Book Catalogues
ALEX WRIGHT
LUCIANE SCARATO
ANNIKA BAUTZ
PART IV
Bibliomania
SHAYNE HUSBANDS
JAMES GREGORY
K. A. MANLEY
Robyn Adams is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at University College London (UCL). She works on bringing digital solutions to archival questions and has produced several online projects dealing with early modern manuscript letters, bibliography, and scientific papers. Her current research focus is a project entitled Building a Library Without Walls: The Early Years of the Bodleian Library. This project seeks to simulate a view of the Bodleian Library as it appeared in 16051620, following the refurbishment of the library by Sir Thomas Bodley.
Annika Bautz is associate professor of English and head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University. Her publications include The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott (2007) as well as essays on Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, library history, and other aspects of the history of the book in the Romantic and Victorian periods.
Mary Chadwick is the Modern Humanities Research Association research assistant on the Anne Clifford Project at the University of Huddersfield. She researches the national and gendered identities, and the reading and writing habits, of the Welsh gentry throughout the long eighteenth century. Her research work focuses on the significance of literary riddles in Jane Austens Emma , on the diverse national identities of the Welsh gentry, and on Mary Wollstonecrafts influence on Wales-related fiction.
Sophie Defrance completed her PhD on nineteenth-century French and English schoolbooks in 2008 and now works for the Rare Books Department at Cambridge University Library. Her research interests include the bequests of nineteenth-century scientists.
Shaun Evans is a member of the research team at the National Archives, Kew. His ongoing research primarily focuses on Welsh gentry culture across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has recently been appointed director of projects for the Institute for Study of Welsh Estates at Bangor University, is chairman of the newly formed North-East Wales Heritage Forum, and sits on the Council of the Flintshire Historical Society.
Louisiane Ferlier is digitisation project manager at the Royal Society. She is interested in the circulation of ideas in the British world in the early modern period. Her work focuses on collections of books formed by individuals at the crossroads between science and theology (George Keith, 16391716, John Wallis, 16161703, Benjamin Franklin, 17061790). As research associate at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letter, UCL, she collaborated on the project Building a Library Without Walls: the Early Years of the Bodleian Library.
James Gregory is associate professor in British History at the University of Plymouth. He has published Of Victorians and Vegetarians. The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth Century-Britain (2007); Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists. The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian England (2010); Victorians Against the Gallows. Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Victorian Britain (2011); and The Poetry and the Politics. Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014).
