- Title :
-
Buying into classes : the practice of book selection in eighteenth-century Britain
- Author :
- JACOBS, Edward H. ;
- Publication year :
- 1999
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Analysis of the 18th-c. book trade reflects on book selection as a way of designing status, and explores how the act of selecting books might have been related to the construction of national subjects and a national culture. Draws on book trade publicity to help identify the conditions under which people could buy and rent books. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 2 ill. ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Bibliothèque ; Collectionneurs ; Collections ; Edition ; Grande-Bretagne ; Identité nationale ; Livre ; Statut social ; 1700-1800 ;
- Descriptors :
- Books ; Collections ; Collectors ; Great Britain ; Libraries ; National identity ; Publishing ; Social status ; 1700-1800 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
- Eighteenth-century studies, 1999, 33, 1, fall
- INIST identifier :
- 24982322 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 0013-2586 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Publisher country :
- UNITED STATES ;
