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Revolution and the antiquarian book : reshaping the past, 1780-1815
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- Creator
- by Kristian Jensen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781107687837, 1107687837
- OCLC
- ocn868079346
- Originally published: 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-310) and index.
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Enlightenment ideas and revolutionary practice: incunabula and freedom -- 2.Aristocratic aspirations and the wartime market: competing for the past and the future -- 3.An object-based discipline emerges: old books, new luxury -- 4.Competing for authority: `the insolence of English wealth' -- 5.Commemorating and obliterating the past: `old books, very displeasing to the eye' -- 6.Conclusion
Subjects
- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
- Incunabula -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
- Incunabula -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
- Antiquarian booksellers -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
- Antiquarian booksellers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
- Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
- Enlightenment -- Europe.
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.