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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 .Readers or collectors? Manuscripts and books in the lives of Irishscholars in late seventeenth-century Connacht; 2. A tale of two seventeenth-century libraries: the books and worldviews of a Limerick patrician family and a Cork landowner; 3. The Otway-Maurice collection: ecclesiastical collecting in lateseventeenth- to mid-eighteenth-century Ireland; 4. Dr Edward Worth: a connoisseur book collector in early eighteenthcenturyDublin |
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5. James Hardiman: book collector6. Collection by donation: the benefactors' registers of Oxford collegelibraries in the seventeenth century; 7. Motives for book collecting in late seventeenth-century England; 8. 'Calculated for instruction and entertainment': lending libraries inGeorgian Leeds; 9. 'The finest theological library in the world': the rise and fall of theBibliotheca Sussexiana; 10. A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskinesof Alva and their books; 11. The country house library in Scotland |
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12. The library as a weapon of state: the pamphlet collection ofGaspar Fagel in Trinity College, DublinIndex; Plates |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book collecting.
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Book collecting. |
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Book collectors -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Book collectors. |
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Ireland. |
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Book collecting -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Boran, Elizabethanne, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2018] 184682737X 9781846827372 (OCoLC)1031458496 |
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9781846827778 (electronic book) |
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1846827779 (electronic book) |
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9781846827372 |
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184682737X |
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