Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850

Elizabethanne Boran

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781846827778
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the ways in which texts, both manuscript and printed, were collected, and draws attention to the wider impact of the European book trade on changing reading habits and the availability of books. Early modern book collectors bought books for a variety of reasons. By combining case studies of institutional and private book collectors, the essays not only demonstrate how individual collections came into being, but also how private and public collections interacted with each other. These essays offer vital insights into the communal world of the early modern book trade.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 .Readers or collectors? Manuscripts and books in the lives of Irishscholars in late seventeenth-century Connacht
• 2. A tale of two seventeenth-century libraries: the books and worldviews of a Limerick patrician family and a Cork landowner
• 3. The Otway-Maurice collection: ecclesiastical collecting in lateseventeenth- to mid-eighteenth-century Ireland
• 4. Dr Edward Worth: a connoisseur book collector in early eighteenthcenturyDublin
• 5. James Hardiman: book collector
• 6. Collection by donation: the benefactors’ registers of Oxford collegelibraries in the seventeenth century
• 7. Motives for book collecting in late seventeenth-century England
• 8. ‘Calculated for instruction and entertainment’: lending libraries inGeorgian Leeds
• 9. ‘The finest theological library in the world’: the rise and fall of theBibliotheca Sussexiana
• 10. A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskinesof Alva and their books
• 11. The country house library in Scotland
• 12. The library as a weapon of state: the pamphlet collection ofGaspar Fagel in Trinity College, Dublin
• Index
• Plates