Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America Gigante Denise
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848Charles Lamb's library--a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin,…
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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848Charles 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
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