Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Works ( 1798 ) 155 22 Notes by William Blake in a copy of Francis Bacon's Essays ( 1798 ) 162-63 23 Notes and underlining by Keats in Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1807 ) 184-85 24 The decorative first page of ...
... copies at a shilling apiece . " Now will you undertake this- either to print it & divide the profits with me - or ( which indeed I should prefer ) would you give me three guineas for the Copy - right ? " 29 Cottle sent him the money ...
... copies " & if the Copy - right owners do not print a large impression [ i.e. , 500-1,000 ] , they cannot afford to sell the book at a moderate price & would then be subject to rivalry & piracy . " He claims that his own stock weighed ...
... copy of Letters from Holland that must have been bought in anticipation of a journey , has a manuscript phrase ... copies from their stock . Some of the cheapest items in Lackington's lists were odd volumes and broken sets like the two ...
... copies , and borrowers sometimes asked permission to copy the notes into their own books ; the flyleaf note recording such a source is quite common - for instance in Kemble's copy of John Horne Tooke's notorious Diversions of Purley ...
Contents
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2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |