This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and

In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of partici

Panorama of seventeenth century British society, that stresses the striking contrast between classes.

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science