Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900

Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Renaissance Collectors -- 1 Building a Library Without Walls: The Early Years of the Bodleian Library -- 2 Universal Knowledge and Self-Fashioning: Cardinal Bernardino Spada's Collection of Books -- 3 'A Paradise & Cabinet of Rarities': Thomas Browne, His Library, and Communities of Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Norfolk -- 4 Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: A 'Collecting Friendship' as Told Through a Re-evaluation of Manuscript PL 2237 and Print Album PL 2062 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge -- PART II Gentlemen and Their Libraries From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- 5 'Ye Best Tast of Books & Learning of Any Other Country Gentn': The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676-1692 -- 6 Fashioning a Gentleman's Library: Displaying the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816 -- 7 "He Was Always Fond of Books": John Couch Adams's Genesis as an Academic Collector -- PART III Beyond Mere Records of Collecting: On Book Catalogues -- 8 From Francis Bacon's Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson's Literary History: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743-1745) -- 9 Booksellers' Catalogues and Readership in the Luso-Brazilian World -- 10 Reading in the Provinces: Plymouth Public Library's Nineteenth-Century Catalogues -- PART IV Bibliomania -- 11 Satire and the Bibliomania in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 12 The 'Fancy for Fine Printing': Collecting Whittaker's Golden Magna Carta -- 13 Blurred Lines in the History of Domestic Libraries in the Age of Dibdin's Bibliomania -- Index