English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century

Description A work-in-progress reference listing of seventeenth-century English book owners, focusing on book collections that were partly, if not entirely, formed in that century. The list is arranged alphabetically by name of the book collector and includes notes on the size and disposition of the collections, as well as dates and citations of other sources. It draws largely on existing published work, but also incorporates evidence of surviving books taken from sales and auction catalogues. (Note: 2011 update #2 added links to images of inscriptions and bookplates in select items, since continued).

 

Date Range1700 – 1800, 1700 – 1800

AudiencesGraduates, Professionals, Scholars

Access TermsBook collecting. Books and reading, Libraries, England, England

Tagsbook collecting, Readership, Personal Libraries