Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. ONE. Creating a Collector 22
6. TWO. Politics, Patronage, and Paper: Books and Broadsides as Political Objects 56
7. THREE. Collecting, Recording, and Practical Knowledge 93
8. FOUR “To Make Books Without End”: From the Library to the Printing Press 130
9. FIVE. Endorsing and Incriminating: Oppenheim and Approbata in the Court of Opinion and the Courts of Law 162
10. EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION. The Library Moves On 188
11. Abbreviations 207
12. Notes 209
13. Bibliography 269
14. Index 311