Libraries: a book lover’s history
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The Art of Book Collecting
In the first stage of print collecting was still a serious business. Books were now very much more available, but they were still expensive. But fiction really only comes into its own in the eighteenth century. And that's the real transformation, which leads to an extraordinary expanse of personal collections and addis fiction.
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