Readers in a Revolution. Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century, Hardback

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values that underpins bibliography, access and collecting today. This study illuminates how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 446
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 178 x 254 x 29
• Cover type: Hardback