Name: The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries) (en Inglés)
Price: 35.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Varios Autores
ISBN: 9781108031189

portada The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Varios Autores

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

246

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1108031188

ISBN13

9781108031189

N° edición

Categorías

Edición y comercio del libro

The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries) (en Inglés)

Varios Autores (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Físico

$ 35.99

Envío Express Gratis

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Martes 30 de Abril y el Jueves 02 de Mayo.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Estados Unidos entre 1 y 3 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries) (en Inglés)"

Wisbech in north Cambridgeshire was a wealthy port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was home to bankers, writers and influential social reformers including Thomas Clarkson. Its museum, founded in 1847, contains about six thousand books bequeathed by Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868), a friend of Charles Dickens who shared Dickens' fascination with mesmerism and the occult. His library was typical of 'a gentleman of wealth and great culture' and contained works of fiction in several languages, non-fiction and science, many of which were rare and finely bound. Since 1877 the Museum has also housed the library of the Wisbech Literary Society (founded in 1781), which focused on history, biography and travel. This 1882 catalogue of the 12,000 volumes in the two Wisbech collections provides fascinating insights into the reading habits of a successful British business community on the one hand, and an influential Victorian collector on the other.