Book Ownership in Stuart England
- ISBN-10
- 0198870124
- ISBN-13
- 9780198870128
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-26
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- David Pearson
Description
This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.
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