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Book madness : a story of book collectors in America / Denise Gigante.
Van Pelt Library Z987.5.U6 G54 2022
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Z987.5.U6 G54 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gigante, Denise, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834--Library.
- Lamb, Charles.
- Book collecting--United States--History.
- Book collecting.
- Book collectors--United States.
- Book collectors.
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
- Libraries.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 378 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends-caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America-booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen-Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries.
- "The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848-- Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends-caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America-booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen-Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries"-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Dramatis personae
- Prologue
- Bookmen across the Atlantic: Charles Lamb's Books on Broadway
- The literary world: publishers, editors, journalists
- New York Shakespeareans: Bardomania, testimonials, and gift exchange
- Boston antiquarians: American history, bibliography, and bibliomania
- Educating America: the dream of a great public library.
- Bookmen across the Atlantic: Charles Lamb's book on Broadway
- The literary world: publishers, editors, journalists 66
- New York Shakespeareans: bardomania, testimonials, and gift exchange
- Boston antiquarians: AAmerican history, bibliography, and bibliomania
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0300248482
- 9780300248487
- OCLC:
- 1309867367
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