Reading Matters : Five Centuries of Acquiring Books.
It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2008.
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Z987.5.G7W55 2008
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