BOOK

Book madness : a story of book collectors in America

Gigante, Denise, 1965- author

2022

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Library. / Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. / Book collecting United States History. / Book collectors United States. / LITERARY CRITICISM - Books & Reading. / Book collecting. / Book collectors. / Libraries. / United States.
• ISBN: 9780300248487

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
Z987.5.U6 G54 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE