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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books

By Jason Camlot (Editor), J.A. Weingarten (Editor)
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By Jason Camlot (Editor), J.A. Weingarten (Editor)
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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries.

Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embas...

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