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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... writers in this period . Constable paid Scott an advance of 1,000 guineas for a poem in 1807 and , once he had proved himself as a novelist , gave him £ 12,000 for his existing copyrights . Hannah More on the other hand kept introduction ...
... sideline in tobacco.36 And he was the author of a pamphlet about circulating librar- ies , a poem for children called The Battle of the Boys and the Flies , a short history of Bromley, Anecdotes, Moral . . . and introduction 19.
... poems by William Combe , written to accompany Rowlandson engravings . ) Anyone who could raise the printing costs through friends or by subscription could publish a book or start up a journal ; copies sold over and above those reserved ...
... poem Madoc in 1803 , he first considered publishing by subscription , ideally in a luxury quarto format that would sell for a guinea like his ill - fated Joan of Arc of 1796 ; or , failing that , in three small volumes . But then he ...
... poems of Byron and Scott and the Waverley novels . Right through the war years they advertised de luxe features such as copperplate engravings and expensive paper , promoting their books as long - term investments . T. J. Mathias ...
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 |