Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... annotated by Francis Hargrave 114-15 17 Notes by John Prinsep in a copy of Thomas Law's An Answer to Mr. Prinseps's Observations on the Mocurrery System ( 1794 ) 138 18 Notes by John Lidwill in Harvest : General Weeding of the Earth ...
... of marginalia included . Finally I added about 700 books annotated by celebrities , people whose names guaranteed attention to their relics , whether they were recognized during their lifetimes or not. The scale and xii preface.
... annotated books themselves are not all well known), which I thought of at first as a by-product of the survey, now seems to me of interest in its own right as a display of the richness and variety of the book world at the time. Since ...
... Annotated volumes circulated as enhanced copies , and borrowers sometimes asked permission to copy the notes into their own books ; the flyleaf note recording such a source is quite common - for instance in Kemble's copy of John Horne ...
... annotated collections and accepted specific bequests of anno- tated books . At a personal level , annotated copies were shared by friends and passed down as heirlooms in families . But this high value assumed and depended on conformity ...
Contents
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2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |