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16 - Advice and Guidance

from Another Generation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2022

David McKitterick
David McKitterick
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University of Cambridge
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What of the choice of books from past generations? How should one choose? How far was a classical education a help? What about those who had no such education? For the top of the bibliophilic range there was considerable guidance on the kinds of books that had become established as those most desirable in a major private library where sufficient money was available. From the 1860s onwards there appeared a new kind of guidance, for people with less money and with different interests, including modern literature.

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DibdinNew guidancePopularisationPeriodicalsSocietiesLibrarianshipLibrary AssociationWigan
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Readers in a Revolution
Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century
 , pp. 251 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Advice and Guidance
  • David McKitterick, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Readers in a Revolution
  • Online publication: 06 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200882.022
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  • Advice and Guidance
  • David McKitterick, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Readers in a Revolution
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200882.022
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  • Advice and Guidance
  • David McKitterick, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Readers in a Revolution
  • Online publication: 06 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200882.022
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