Chawton House Library Comes Through With Colonel Brandon Library Listings

Oh, it's going to be a very cozy winter snuggling up with these books! (Not kidding.)

Dear Christine:
 
I have attached some of the bibliographies of the type that will give you the information you need. There were many books written recommending the ideal contents of a gentleman’s library in the C18 and of the circulating libraries that individuals subscribed too, giving tiles and authors. You will also find the reviews in C18 and C19 periodicals useful.
Yours sincerely
 
Jacqui Grainger
Librarian
Chawton House Library

The Englishman and his books in the early nineteenth century / by Amy Cruse

Authors  Cruse, Amy

Imprint New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1930?]

 

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 : a dangerous recreation / Jacqueline Pearson

Authors   Pearson, Jacqueline

Imprint  Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005

 

The Rothschild Library. A Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and Manuscripts formed by Lord Rothschild.

Authors  Rothschild

Imprint New York, NY: James Cummins, 1993

 

English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost For Collectors. By Charles J. Sawyer And F.J. Harvey Darton. With One Hundred Illustrations.

Authors  Sawyer, Charles and Darton, F. J. Harvey

Imprint  Westminster: Chas. J. Sawyer, LTD. And Are Also To Be Obtained At Their Book-Shop, Grafton House, Grafton Street, Old Bond Street, And In The United States From E.P. Dutton And Company, 681 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1927

 

A Catalogue Of Bedford’s Circulating Library, No. 17, St. John-Street, Bristol; Containing a valuable collection of the most esteemed works, with a considerable number of novels and romances. No novels or romances added to the library, except those of esteemed authors. To which will be continually added, The New Publications Of Merit, As Soon As Published.

Bristol: Printed By Mary Bryan, 51, Corn-Street, 1817

A nation of readers : the lending library in Georgian England / David Allan

Authors Allan, David

Imprint London: British Library, 2008

 

Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana. A Catalogue Of the Large and Valuable Library Of the late Honourable Topham Beauclerk . . .Comprehending an excellent Choice of Books, To the Number of upwards of Thirty Thousand Volumes, In most Languages, and upon almost every Branch of Science and Polite Literature . . . By Mr. Paterson.

Authors  Beauclerk, Topham

Imprint London: Samuel Paterson., No. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden; and of the principal Booksellers of London, Oxford and Cambridge, 1781

 

The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. By The Rev. T.F. Dibdin, M.A., F.R.S.

Authors Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Imprint London: Printed For Harding, Triphook, And Lepard, Finsbury-Square; And J. Major, Fleet-Street, 1825

 

The International Library of Famous Literature. Selections from the World's Great Writers Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays by many Eminent Writers.Edited By Richard Garnett, C.B. of the British Museum.

Authors Garnett, Richard (ed)

Imprint London: Issued By The Standard, 1900

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