Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Books do furnish a room: the books of Bess of Hardwick and the Cavendish Family
  • Enjoyment of all that's worth seeking after: the books of Samuel Pepys
  • Distance learning: three provincial libraries
  • A founding father: the books of Thomas Jefferson
  • Building a library: the books of Sir John Soane
  • A little light reading?: Fact and fiction in Georgian Britain
  • Rare and curious: the books of Charles Winn
  • The common reader: books for working men and women
  • Children of the Revolution: the books of Denis and Edna Healey
  • Appendix: Equivalent values of the pound.