Author: MYERS, ROBIN & MICHELL HARRIS (EDS.).
Title: Property of a Gentleman. The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library 1620-1920.
Description: . Winchester/New Castle, 1996. xii,164pp. Index. Bds.*This collection of essays by leading specialists in the field, some with extensive auction-house experience, draws aside the curtain to reveal how a variety of collectors at different periods set about amassing their libraries, what they acquired, how they organised, catalogued and displayed them, and the means by which their books came to be dispersed. Contains a.o.: F. Hermann, The emergence of the book auctioneer as a professional; C. Wainwright, The library as living room; D. Stoker, The ill-gotten library of 'Honest Tom' Martin & T.A. Birrell, Reading as Pastime: the place of light literature in some gentlemen's libraries of the 17th century..

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