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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... Circulating Library, Salisbury, 1800 46 10 ''The Library of the Royal Institution,'' from Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808–10) 48 11 The drawing-room of Miss Richardson Currer of Yorkshire, from T. F. Dibdin, Reminiscences (1836) ...
... circulating libraries; if no circulating libraries, no novels, no contract authors, no Colburn and Bentleys. It is now in literature as in other trades; great consumption is followed by great supply'' (n.s. 13:462). From the point of ...
... circulating library it could be ordered from the publisher, directly by post or through the newsagent, to be delivered within a week.∞∫ A secondary e√ect of this excellent commercial arrangement was that it created a nationwide ...
... circulating library. He probably carried newspapers and periodicals. He may have had a sideline in tobacco.≥∏ And he was the author of a pamphlet about circulating libraries, a poem for children called The Battle of the Boys and the ...
... circulating library. His stationer's stock included gold and silver toothpicks, wallpapers, and (because he sold music) violin strings.≥π By diversifying more or less within the bounds of the printing trades, small businesses like ...
Contents
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60 | |
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 |