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The article reports that the Pirckheimer Society, an association of bibliophiles, graphic and ex-libris collectors, takes over book sponsorship for Victor Klemperer, who was a Romance languages scholar.

This article examines the sale of Benjamin Hoadly's Works in 1773 and the purchasers of them. Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761) was a highly controversial Anglican bishop who sparked two major theological controversies; his Works were principally polemical theological pieces. The Works were printed in a large paper and regular folio issues. This article shows the ways in which the two issues were differentiated, which has hitherto been unclear. The article also traces through ESTC the first individual and institutional purchasers and owners of the Works. Such reconstruction recovers the nature of book purchasing in the eighteenth century. The purchase of Hoadly's Works was motivated by a combination of theological and political principles, bibliographic goals and admiration of Hoadly. The article contributes to our understanding of book purchases in the eighteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The materiality and subject matter of a pair of theatrical scrapbooks held by the Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger MS W.b.110 and W.b.111) provide an unusual, detailed window into the inner workings of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Rather than the more common account books for the theater, these scrapbooks preserve the actual receipts for goods and services, complete with signatures and countersignatures of the tradespeople and theater managers. This paper explores how the "Shakespeare Factor" influenced the collecting practices of nineteenth-century antiquarians and book collectors, which in turn helped ensure the very survival of these receipts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a detailed case study of Mary Booth as book owner and book user using two primary sources: her surviving library and her commonplace books. Booth's fastidious approach to marking her books, coupled with the fortunate survival of the two houses where those books ultimately came to rest, allows for the reconstruction of her library almost in its entirety. Her commonplace books present an unusually rich record of her reading. Together, these sources offer a rare insight into the life, education, and book use of an early eighteenth-century gentlewoman, a rare comparator against which other women's collections and habits of reading can be assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Helen Wright Collection of Autographed Books at Vassar College testifies to a modernist market that was sustained in its capitalization of individual author signatures by a system of secondary literary labors. Straddling differently gendered spheres of this market, Wright competed with established book collectors while retaining a sense of "sentimental ownership" (Lori Merish) that set her apart from the bibliophile businessmen of her era. This endeavor involved commodifying celebrities such as Edith Wharton, whose conspicuous absence from the collection speaks to a conception of meaningful literary work that negates Wright's labor. Ultimately, the essay seeks to advance a broader discussion of how scholars can do justice to an understanding of literary production as integrally involving forms of labor that have historically been undervalued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legal relationships in the field of HoReCa involve specialized contractual partners for this activity. Among them we mention: the owner of the reservation platform, called wholesaler, hotel, client. The specificity of these contractual legal relationships is also determined by their complexity, both in their conclusion and in their development. Through the tourism contract, a complex activity is performed which involves contractual legal relations of: transport, accommodation, curative treatments, rest, seasonal sports, tourist circuits of historical or leisure interest, medical assistance, etc. Of course, the paper involves a brief presentation of some categories of legal relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the publication is to attract attention to the problem of book heritage artifact value, to present particular evidence from the past book historians' works, dedicated to book rarities. Such information is important not only for single bibliophiles but also for the history of book culture, for the book science as an auxiliary science of history. The discovery and analysis of such information demanded the application of the following methods: heuristics, source search, selection, analysis and synthesis of information, and the most important - the attribution: defining the author, the title, the time, and the place of book publishing, defining its value and rarity. The scientific novelty. The information on some early printed editions, known only in the bibliography, and also on extraordinary editions or separate copies of rare books of 17th - the beginning of 20th cc., which differ from the majority of printed copies. The information was collected by the author of the article in documents from archive collections of V.Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine and some publications, as well as personal empiric observation of book monuments. The main results. Besides of introduction to scientific use hardly known or forgotten information from the works of past book historians on unique editions or copies, the concepts of unicum, rare book, variants of editions, editorial forgeries, falsifications, pseudo-editions, etc. were also analyzed. It was pointed out that accurate attribution of ancient editions demands investigation of the book paper, its art decoration, and the quality of the polygraphic process, the uniqueness of the edition due to alternative dedication, autograph of a prominent person, valuable for the history comments, left by the owner of the book on its margins. It is proved that book monuments researches, the first stage of which is the attribution of books, their careful storage, accurate scientific description, popularization in different ways make a basis of the book memorabilia - the scientific approach and at the same time the sphere of practical work with rare and valuable books that are the monuments of the history and the culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From Renaissance collections to nineteenth-century print exhibitions, the "museumification" of literature calls for a redefinition of the traditional relationship between literature and books. Based on a sample of literary exhibitions in museums, this article examines the issues they bring to the fore on a period that extends from the end of the nineteenth century to today. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the concomitant museumification of literature and books by observing the tensions that it creates on an institutional scale, both between libraries and museums and within certain literary paradigms (genres, "classics," etc.). This article thus explores the motivations that might explain the seemingly central place of the book in the literary exhibition as opposed to a multitude of objects a priori more spectacular. In this sense, the hyper-materiality of literature and its dissociation from the book (on which the very existence of the literary museum is paradoxically based) is the focus of detailed analysis here. The literary exhibition relies on the contextualization of the literary text and, especially in a time of emphasis on digital text, on its place in the history of the book. Museumification today tends to attribute additional value to literature that is on other platforms than paper as a way of adding a spectacular aspect to the exhibition. In this perspective, the contemporary "dematerialization" of the book poses an ultimate question - a question concerning digital literary collections and the use of digital platforms in the added value of literature. By facilitating and broadening the access to heritage, virtual exhibits (one example of the digital platform) offer the double advantage of protecting fragile collections and making their value more durable. They run the risk, however, of neutralizing the "aura" of paper books and the quest for tangible objects, which constitute the main reason for our society's attachment to paper books and the foundation of museums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is a personal confession projected at the background and history of e-books. Like with any new technologies, their introduction evoked hopes and fears. As technical problems vanish, and new habits are forming, the readership of e-books grows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Based primarily on archival sources, the article presents new relevant facts about the life of Jiří [Georgius] Mělnický of Greifenfels († 1619), the first owner of a copy of Kalendář historický printed by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín in 1590. Concerning this copy, significant research attention has been devoted to only one more owner of this book, Václav Nosidlo, namely in connection with his chronicle recordings from exile in 1625-1639. The only information about J. Mělnický so far has come from the owner's marks in Veleslavín's calendar: his initials with the date 1596 and a heraldic bookplate on the upper board, an attached sheet of paper with Jiří Mělnický's woodcut arms, and an encomiastic poem on this insignia written by Jiří [Georgius] Carolides of Carlsperk. The binding has been successfully assigned to Kryštof Meyšnar's bookbinding shop. The activities of Jiří Mělnický, originally named Pšovský, in Koporeč, Polehrady and Litoměřice have been proved by archival documents, but his presumed stay in Mělník and Prague remains unconfirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), book collecting evolved from an elite pastime into a widespread obsession. 'Bibliophilia'—the passionate love for books—drove many book collectors to exhaust their fortunes or even trade their concubines for books. As books became indispensable towards gaining respectability in Chinese society, scholars, merchants, and landowners ensured that their residences were thoroughly infused with the prestigious "fragrance of books". Some literati even regarded book collecting as a man's most important undertaking in life. Ming private book collectors broke away from tradition and made their private collections available for others to view, exchange, or copy, greatly promoting the circulation of books. Through their incredible attention to the collection, classification, storage, and proofreading of books, Ming bibliophiles contributed enormously to the preservation and transmission of Chinese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's views on his experience of examining an inventory of books owned by Alexander Seton, the first earl of Dunfermline in Scotland, from 1555 to 1622. He offers information on the inventory which lists hundreds of books in two sides of a sheet paper. Images of the inventory are also presented.

Apart from a number of brief visits to the capital required of him by his (unsuccessful) participation in the civil service examinations, the Suzhou bibliophile Huang Pilie 黃丕烈 (1765-1825) journeyed almost nowhere. Instead, books made their way to him, in great numbers. Huang devoted more than thirty years of his life to the acquisition, copying, and collating of ancient editions. He was one of the most important book collectors of what has been regarded as the golden age of private book collecting in China, the half-century covering the late years of the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1711-1799; r. 1736-1795) and the entire reign of the Jiaqing emperor (1760-1820; r. 1796-1820), an 'Age of Prosperity' (shengshi 盛世). For almost a decade between 1801 and 1811, this library owner, editor, bibliographer, publisher, and, in his final year, (again, somewhat unsuccessfully) bookseller, who styled himself as the Master besotted with imprints of the Song dynasty (Ning Song zhuren 佞宋主人) and was the owner of the famous Hundred Song Imprints in a Single Shed (Bai Song yichan 百宋一廛), also conducted a book ritual (ji shu 祭書) of his own devising whereby, every New Year's Eve, he would lay out before a select number of guests his best acquisitions of the preceding year and undertake rituals more usually associated with ancestor worship. My paper discusses aspects of Huang Pilie's life and work as a book collector with reference particularly to the 800 or so extant colophons he wrote for books either in his own collection or in those of his acquaintances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Hay Fleming, one in a long line of gentlemen scholars, is remembered as an historian, antiquary, and critic. Yet upon his death in 1931 he left his library of nearly 13,000 volumes (together with his personal papers, letters, and notebooks) to the town of St Andrews, to form the nucleus of a public reference library. This paper seeks to place him firmly in the context of a book collector (and reader) through examining the subjects contained within his library, his motivation for acquiring books, and how his library was used both by himself and by others. Ultimately, new light will be shed upon the book-collecting habits of a middle-class individual, contributing to our understanding of how books were owned, read, and used in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scotland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a look into the early years of the book collection of Ferrarese count and artist Leopoldo Cicognara of Italy. It highlights events in the life of Cicognara that shaped the development of his collection including his diplomatic mission in Turin, impact of the political situation during the Austro-Russian offensive on his collecting activities, changes to his book collecting during his time in Milan in 1802, and influence of his aesthetic studies on his collection.

Modern biographical studies of Shakespeare owe much to John Aubrey's decision in 1681 to interview the retired theater manager William Beeston. Preserved in the notes that arose from their discussions is an anecdote that has proven especially tantalizing to scholars: on the verso side of MS Aubrey 8, fol. 45—a paper slip bound into one of the folios at the Bodleian Library containing Aubrey's Brief Lives —are the words: "the more to be admired quia he was not a company keeper / lived in Shoreditch, would n[o]t be debauched, & if invited to / [gout?]: he was in paine." The inscription's proximity to Shakespeare's name on the page has led many to regard it as one of the most revealing passages ever written about the playwright. But does it properly apply to him? This essay explores the alternative possibility, first proposed by Aubrey's nineteenth-century editor Andrew Clark, that the passage in fact refers to the antiquary's informant, Beeston. New evidence concerning the professional ruin into which Beeston fell at the end of his life appears to support Clark's proposition. As this research aims to show, at stake in our interpretation of the manuscript are an array of biographical narratives that scholars have spun from Aubrey's text, conceptualizing everything from Shakespeare's writing habits and artistic preoccupations to his sex life and final days alive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Trade in Rare Books and Manuscripts between Britain and America c. 1890–1929" by Danielle Magnusson and Laura Cleaver explores the period of American book collecting from 1890 to 1929, which was a time of significant growth and change in the market. The authors discuss the rise of American collectors and the increasing sophistication among buyers during this period. They also highlight the important role played by British and American booksellers in facilitating the trade. The book provides a detailed account of notable sales, collectors, and key figures in the trade, drawing on archival material and personal correspondence. The authors present both British and American perspectives, showcasing the tensions and stereotypes that existed between the two countries. Overall, the book offers valuable insights into the motivations of collectors and the dynamics of the rare book and manuscript trade during this golden age. [Extracted from the article]

Knowledge of libraries and book collecting is a preliminary task for the characterisation of scientific culture and practice. In the case of Iberia, and especially Portugal, this is still a desideratum. This paper provides a first global look at this issue. In early modern Portugal religious institutions organised impressive collections of books, by far the largest in the country. These libraries not only served the religious institutions themselves, but also supplied books to lesser libraries, such as the University Library of Coimbra and the Royal Library. The Portuguese book market mirrored the purchase and selection of books made by religious congregations. This was also true for the circulation of scientific books, which depended above all on the interests, choices and cultural relations of these most peculiar book collectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

José Rizal is known for being a bibliophile and a book collector, however, it is largely unknown to many that he created bibliographic cards for his collection. This historical article revisited Rizal s bibliographic cards, particularly those under the custody of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), to highlight the historical value of these cards towards its recognition as a documentary heritage worthy to be preserved. This article argued that these bibliographic cards are historically significant, through discussions of their provenance and the contexts surrounding them. It provided a document history of these cards; an analysis of these cards as card catalogs, as records, and as artifacts (or object-document) from the standpoint of librarianship, archives, and historiography, respectively; and a discussion of its eligibility and the need for these cards' recognition. It concluded with a recommendation for the recognition and declaration of these bibliographic cards as Important Cultural Property, under existing legal and policy frameworks in the Philippines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, was an almost unparalled intellectual. As a reader and book collector, in assembling his various libraries, Jefferson assiduously sought particular editions of specific books, choosing on the basis of several variables: quality of translation, quality of prose; reliability of the author; reliability of the printer; legibility of the printing; quality of plates or engravings in the work; quality of the paper; size of the format (folio, quarto, octavo, etc.); method and quality of binding, or the option to buy a book in unbound sheets; length of time required to receive shipment of a book; cost. Shopping on his own, pre-Internet, Jefferson built perhaps the greatest private library in Colonial America and in the early Republic. At its height (1815), Jefferson's library held nearly 6,500 carefully chosen volumes, on all subjects, including maps and engravings, painstakingly catalogued and systematically shelved for ready reference. How did Jefferson acquire so many wonderful books; how did he do this...in the absence of many North American booksellers? The answer lies in his relationships with booksellers and purchasing agents in the great cultural capitals, on the other side of the Atlantic, and the answer tells us a great deal about "the bookstore in America" in the late colonial and early republic periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the origin of book collecting which has been defined by English bibliographer A. W. Pollard as the bringing together of books which in their contents, form or the history depict permanent interest. It mentions that book collectors in Australia and New Zealand are called patriots since the countries are famous for their diverse range of collections that add to their literary and cultural heritage. The zoological collections in the late-nineteenth-century are also outlined.

Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), known primarily as a wealthy businessman, industrialist, and art collector, was also a book collector who spent his precious resources of time and money accumulating a gentleman's library that is now on display alongside his art at The Frick Collection in Manhattan. Through original archival research, staff interviews, and examination of secondary sources, this article gives a brief look into the provenance of Mr. Frick's library, his level of involvement in the collecting practices, and how it was used by members of the Frick family and Frick Collection staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on collecting popular adventure fiction published between the late 19th century and 1933. The author discusses the quality of book publishing during this time period, examines how adventure stories reinforce imperialistic ideas, and examines several books by authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and James Hilton.

W. T. H. Howe (1868–1939) was one of the most prominent book collectors and literary patrons of the Golden Era of book collecting, yet his efforts have been largely forgotten. This piece strives to correct that oversight, providing information about Howe's life and situating him among American book collectors of his period. Fellow collectors such as Barton Currie and Richard Curle lauded his foresighted purchases of Poe and Hawthorne works at the famous Wakeman sale of 1924; later he made splashy purchases of Lewis Carroll first editions that positioned him as a major contributor to the 1932 New York "Alice" exhibition. Howe accumulated a huge treasure trove of literary manuscripts and rare books that he kept in Cincinnati, where he was president of the world's largest textbook publisher, the American Book Company. Friends with rare booksellers such as Walter Hill of Chicago and Alfred Goldsmith of New York, Howe shaped collecting trends to emphasize nineteenth-century and contemporary writers. When Howe died suddenly without a will, his collection was slated for auction, but bookman Mitchell Kennerley brokered a deal with Alfred Berg, who purchased the library en bloc and donated it to the New York Public Library. Ironically, this saved Howe's collection intact, but obscured his role in building the foundation of today's Berg Collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study explores the social and political role of Czech home libraries during the communist era (1948–1989). Analyses of qualitative data from existing oral history reading projects and methodological impulses of memory studies serve as grounds for multiple interpretations of this specific role. Home libraries can be considered as a counterreaction to the official propaganda and to regular purges of politically unsuitable books from public libraries; a reflection of building up alternatives to the centrally controlled public sphere; and perhaps even as a form of book consumers' need for hoarding as a reaction to the shortage of desirable volumes on the state-operated book market. However, we argue that the persistent position of Czech home libraries as the depository of social and cultural capital can be traced in the enduring, nearly cultic veneration of the book and reading in the Czech book owners' book memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Order of the Friars Minor faced a dilemma from the outset: their Rule of life, written by their founder St Francis of Assisi, included a strict adherence to the ideal of absolute poverty (that is, living without property, even property held in common), and yet it was impossible to fulfil their pastoral activities in the community without at least one type of property – liturgical books. In both the earlier (1209/10–1221) and later (1223) Rules, St Francis discussed the ownership of books, but not their production. Surviving manuscripts and archival records alert us to the fact that friars did produce their own liturgical books and act as the scribes and illuminators of books made for others. As both producers and owners of illuminated manuscripts, the friars engaged in a careful navigation of the relationship between beauty (permissible as an expression of invisible divine beauty, as defined by Hugh of St Victor) and luxury. It was all too easy (as the Franciscan Durand of Champagne bemoaned) for friars to desire 'beautiful ... and ... curiously illuminated [books, rather] than true and well corrected ones'. This essay explores the ways in which friars negotiated the issues of poverty, beauty and luxury, and how they expressed and satisfied their desire for books, drawing on examples from the library of the Sacro Convento in Assisi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While John Lydgate's aureate style is commonly recognized as one of the significant features of his poetics, its reception among medieval audiences has not been closely assessed. This article is a case study that explores early readerly responses to Lydgate's aureate and paraliturgical lyrics collected in a late-fifteenth-century short anthology, Booklet IX of Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21. Produced for a wealthy London merchant, this booklet reflects, at least partially, its first owner's literary interests, and its mise-en-page presents the aureate and paraliturgical lyrics as material objects. Such material presentations embed the texts in the sociocultural milieu of late-fifteenth-century London and presumably helped the first owner of the booklet to establish his social profile by performatively intertwining his devotional and literary agency with the sophistication of the poems contained in the volume [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This volume of essays examines the collection of manuscripts and old books owned by Robert Edward Hart (1878-1946), now housed at the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery in Lancashire. McKendrick focuses instead on a fifteenth-century manuscript book of hours in a contribution titled "Contextualising the Art and Innovations of the Master of Edward IV in the Blackburn Hours (Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Hart MS 20884)." Richly illustrated with beautiful color images, the book is intended to celebrate the life and passions of Robert Edward Hart, a ropemaker and bibliophile with a desire to collect early printed and manuscript books for himself and for the next generation. [Extracted from the article]

Miscellanies are usually identified through absence: the absence of some unifying codicological, thematic, linguistic, or other cohering principle. After identifying this absence, books can be termed miscellanies—or commonplace books, collections, compilations, household books, and so forth. Such varying terminology highlights the challenges of identifying miscellanies today. Situating the miscellany in its documentary context, this essay examines hundreds of English wills written between 1400 and 1499 to evaluate descriptive trends employed by book owners of the late Middle Ages that clarify how they conceptualized miscellanies. For testators and executors, easy identification of all books, including miscellanies, was necessary to facilitate the distribution of bequests. Consequently, patterns established across wills illuminate aspects of miscellanies perceived as facilitating accessible identification. Moreover, in the role of the will as a public document offering testators one final opportunity to shape their reputation, descriptions of miscellanies also conveyed aspects of testators' identities that they prized or that emphasized their social status, such as aesthetic values, literacy skills, erudition, and more. As this essay argues, examining descriptions of miscellanies in wills reveals not only identification practices for miscellanies among book owners and readers in late medieval England but also roles played by miscellanies as culturally freighted objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regardless of these shortcomings and in light of its many assets, the book provides a commendable example to investigate further the long-lasting afterlife of Aldus across Europe and beyond. Not only did its creator, the Erasmian humanist Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella, buy a great many Aldine books, but he went as far as to use Aldus for a "camuflaje administrativo." An exhaustive apparatus of indexes for names, manuscripts, printed books, and illustrations helps the reader to navigate this thought-provoking volume. [Extracted from the article]

A biography is presented for Sir William Osler, born in Ontario in 1849, son of an Anglican missionary. He studied medicine at the Toronto School of Medicine and McGill University, studied in Europe, and was named Professor of the Institutes of Medicine at McGill at age 25. He then taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins medical school, then was appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University in 1905. He died in 1919. His book collection was the foundation of the Osler Library at McGill.

Sir John Prise (1501/2--55) was a Welsh lawyer and book collector who was one of the royal commissioners responsible for closing down the monasteries at the Dissolution of the 1530s. Operating mainly in the March of Wales, Prise was able to save around 100 medieval manuscripts which would otherwise have been destroyed. As a Welsh speaker, Prise was keenly interested in medieval Welsh writing and some of the most famous medieval Welsh manuscripts passed through his hands. He was particularly interested in the British history of Geoffrey of Monmouth and in his Latin prose treatise, Historiae Britannicae Defensio, published in 1573 after his death, Prise put forward a spirited defence of the 'British history' related by Geoffrey, based almost entirely on his reading of manuscripts that he owned. This article examines the significance of Sir John Prise, his writing and his book collection in relation to the transmission of medieval texts into the Tudor age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Country houses have provided repositories for some of the most significant and sizeable accumulations of literature ever assembled in Wales. Most of these accumulations have been displaced and dispersed over the last century. The presence of books in the Welsh country house was commonplace, yet the Welsh country house library has not yet emerged as a concerted focus of academic enquiry. This article seeks to provide a framework for such an endeavour, reflecting on existing scholarly debates which are relevant to the subject and suggesting future lines of enquiry. The research potential of books and libraries is significant. This article is especially interested in probing the relationships which existed between owners and their books, and the implications of these engagements for our understanding of the identities and outlook of landowning families in Wales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It can be dated back at least to 1934, when on 17 November he bought Cogan's I The Court of Rome i (1654) with Daniel Fleming's marks of ownership from Pickering and Chatto, noting 'from sale at Sotheby's, known to have come from Fleming sale (2 days)'. At the age of twenty-eight, Daniel Fleming wrote "A Description of Westmoreland", the county of which his family was among the most ancient inhabitants.[1] Born on 25 July 1633 at Coniston Hall, the seat of his father, William Fleming, he lived to become an important local figure, whose copious records have engaged historians from his own time to the present.[2] He was also a distinguished antiquary, whose care for his library came to be discovered three centuries after his life- time. (Gabriel Bedell, the bookseller).[47] If, by now, the idea has occurred that Fleming was a fastidious, not to say fussy, book-collector, this would be correct, and it brings us to the most extraordinary and individual feature of his books, the marking he bestowed on them, which instantly identifies them. Clayton's I Reports i of 1651 and I Topicks in the Laws of England i of 1647, Coke's I Declarations i and I Upon Littleton i , Doderidge, Rastell and the I Vieux Natura Brevium i , Swinburne's I Treatises i , Brown's I Compendium of the Exchequer i , Hakewill's I Modus tenendi parliamentum, The Modern Conveyancer i , Powell's I Direction for Search of Records i of 1622, and I The Attourney's Academy i of 1647, I Scobell Acts of Parliament i 1653-58, and no less than three copies of Michael Dalton, I The Countrey Justice i of 1655 and 1677, as well as a heavily annotated I Office and Authority of Sherifes i of 1628, all attest Fleming's professional interest.[26] There are many other texts besides, from which it is clear that Fleming's interest was intellectual and antiquarian as well as professional. [Extracted from the article]

The article takes a look into the library of book collector Leopoldo Cicognara and his bibliographic system. It describes the organization system of the collection contained in the Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d' antichitá posseduti dal conte Cicognara, which consists of Art and Antiquities principal sections divided into thematic categories. It provides an overview of traces of universal systems and hierarchical system found in the structure of Cicognara's catalogue.

In 2010, the Oxford bookseller Christopher Edwards discovered a bound volume containing eleven annotated almanacs of the early modern woman reader and book owner Frances Wolfreston (1607–1677). Her annotated almanacs chronicle important events in her life and provide a fuller understanding of her as a person and a book-collector. While informal, they are the only surviving self-writing by this remarkable figure and reveal a careful process of selection and attention to accuracy. Wolfreston almost certainly intended the almanacs to be read by her children after her death and may have even used them as a temporary repository of material for another manuscript she was writing. A member of the minor landed gentry living near the market town of Tamworth for most of her life, she has been characterized as provincial, but her almanacs reveal an active, innovative, and self-sufficient widow who maintained relationships with prominent individuals in her community, helped managed her son's estate, and lent money to men and women alike. They are a valuable glimpse into the life of a widow and bibliophile in the English Midlands in the 1660s and 1670s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The late-nineteenth century saw private book collecting gain a renewed respectability and cultural cachet as a leisure pursuit for the upper- and middle classes. This paper examines representations of collectors in the literature belonging to a new genre of writing which emerged for the ‘book-hunter’: a late-Victorian variant of the book-collecting passion which could encompass aesthetes and antiquarians as well as aspiring amateurs of more moderate means. It will show how, during the 1880s and 1890s, this particular type of collecting practice was used rhetorically in a range of printed material to venerate ‘gentlemanly’ book-buying, in contrast to feminine forms of engagement with old books in particular. In spite of women's comparative lack of advantage in the market for antiquarian editions, however, I argue that such a critique would not have been articulated so forcefully had women not been taking a determined interest in rare books. Evidence from central London booksellers during this period suggests that a variety of women were making antiquarian collections of their own. Male bibliophiles who denigrated female book-buyers in the periodical press were attempting to partially invent a homosocial tradition of collecting in order to distance their own pursuit from what they saw as the more emasculating elements of modern consumerism. This was a response not just to developments in contemporary print culture, but also to the growing appreciation of second-hand goods of all kinds among affluent female consumers with aesthetic and literary tastes shaped independently of male judgments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]