Called “Reading” till 7/24/2010 and then changed to “18c r

Weisert, Hermann. “Geschichte der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelburg: Überblick 1386-1976.” Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, 20 (1986), 191-229.

Weiß, Wisso. "Alte Ausgaben auf Feinpapier." Imprimatur, n.F. 14 (1991), 305-24; illus.

Welch, Bryan. “Two Friends Lord Sheffield and Edward Gibbon.” Bookplate Journal, n.s. 12, no. 2 (Autumn 2014), 89-101.

Welch, Bryan. “Why did William Beckford Buy Edward Gibbon’s Library?” The Beckford Journal, 19 (2013).

Welch, Dennis M. “Blake and Rousseau on Children’s Reading, Pleasure and Education.” The Lion and the Unicorn, 35, no. 3 (September 2011), 199-226.

Wells, Maria X., and Luigi Croutti (eds.). Libraries and Librarianship in Italy. Special issue of Libraries and Culture, 25, no. 3 (1990), 303-481. [Includes Wells's introduction (307-09); "The Ecclesiastical Libraries in Italy: History and Present Situation" by Anselmo Mattioli (312-33); "The Network of Libraries in the Old Italian States" by Enzo Bottasso (334-44); "The Heritage of the Pre-1861 States in the Italian Library System" by Giovanni Lazzari (345-57); "The Endowed Municipal Public Libraries" by Ennio Sandal (358-71); "The Two National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome" by Franca Arduini (383-405); and "Bibliographical Studies in Italy since 1945" by Enzo Esposito and Giovanni Solimine (433-45).]

Wendorf, Richard (ed.). America’s Membership Libraries. Preface by Nicolas Barker. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006 [2007]. Pp. 354; illus. (some in color). [Rev. (with another book) [by Nicolas Barker?] in review essay (“American Libraries”) in Book Collector, 56 (2007), 311-12, 315-20, 323-24, 327; by Peter F. McNally in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 46, no. 1 (Spring 2008); by William F. Meehan III in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (2009), 384-85; by Karen Nipps in Library Quarterly, 80 (2010), 194-98.]

Wendorf, Richard (ed.). The Boston Athenaeum: Bicentennial Essays. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, for the Boston Athenaeum, 2009. Pp. 397. [Includes an introduction by Michael Wentworth, a chronology by Sarah M. Morgan, and twelve essays including Wendorf’s “Athenaeum Origins” (3-32); Kenneth E. Carpenter’s “American’s Most Influential Library?” (33-68); and Hannah Adams’s “The Role of Women in the Boston Athenaeum” (69-97).]

Wendorf, Richard. The Literature of Collecting and Other Essays. Boston: Boston Athenaeum; New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. Pp. 376; index. [A mix of previously published and new essays. The essays include “The Literature of Collecting” (5-72); “The Boston Athenaeum, 1807-2007)” (73-104); “Athenaeum Origins” (105-42); and seven essays on portraiture (a prominent enough topic to receive indication in the title). Rev. by John Kincade in Libraries and the Cultural Record, 45 (2010), 369-70; by Nina Musinsky in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 104 (2010), 410-13; by Bruce Whiteman in SHARP News, 19, no. 1 (Winter 2010), 6.]

Wenger, Alexandre. La Fibre littéraire: Le discours médical sur la lecture au XVIII^e siècle. Geneva: Droz, 2007. Pp. 358.[In part on the history of the medical study of the effects of and pathologies related to reading, first taken up in the late 1700s. Rev. by Suellen Diaconoff in H-France Review, 9, no. 32 (February 2009), 127-30; Michel Melot in Histoire et civilization du livre, 4 (2008), 350-52; by Elizabeth A. Williams in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (2009), 788-90.]

Wenneker, Erich. "Die Bibliothek und die Handschriften des Petrus Domenicus Rosius a Porta." Bündner Monatsblatt (1992), 3-18; illus.

Wenzel, Sarah G. "From Revolution to Evolution: The Transformation of the Bibliothèque Nationale into the Bibliothèque National de France, through the Lens of Popular and Professional Reports." Library Quarterly, 69 (1999), 324-38.

Wertheimer, Andrew B. "Quantifying the 'Goodness' of Library History Research: A Bibliometric Study of the Journal of Library History / Libraries & Culture." Libraries and Culture, 40 (2005), 267-84.

Wertheimer, Andrew B., and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (eds.). Library Research in America: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Library History Round Table. Foreword by John Cole. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Washington, DC: Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2000. Pp. vi + 279; index. [Contains seventeen essays, mostly on history, methods, and sources, originally published (without Cole's foreword) as Libraries and Culture, 35, no. 1 (2000): Introduction, "Library History Research in America," by Wertheimer and Davis; then, within several subheadings, 16 essays, including "American Library History Literature, 1947-1997: Theoretical Perspectives?" by Wayne A. Wiegand (4-34 [of L&C]); "Louis Shores and Library History" by Lee Shiflett (35-40); "The Library History Round Table's First Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences and Remarks on Recent Research" by John David Marshall (41-50); within "New Directions for Library History," "Library Feminism and Library Women's History: Activism, Scholarship, Equity and Culture" by Suzanne Hildenbrand (51-65) and "International Dimensions of Library History: Leadership and Scholarship, 1978-1998" by Mary Niles Maack (66-76); (within "Library History and Cognate Fields," "The Failure or Future of American Archival History: A Somewhat Unorthodox View" by Richard J. Cox; and "Historical Bibliography and Library History" by D. W. Krummel (155-60); within "The LHRT and the State of Library History Research," "The Library Historian's Field of Dreams: A Profile of the First Nine Seminars" by Edward A. Goedeken (161-72); "Advancing the Scholarship of Library History: The Role of the Journal of Library History and Libraries and Culture" by Jon Arvid Aho and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (173-91); and "Fifty Years of Promoting Library History: A Chronology of the ALA (American) Library History Round Table, 1947-1997" by Andrew B. Wertheimer and John David Marshall (215-39).]

Weruaga Prieto, Ángel. Libros y lectura en Salamanca: Del barroco a la ilustración (1650-1725). (La imprenta, libros y libreros, 5.) Salamanca, Spain: Junta de Castillo y Leon, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 1993. Pp. 258; illustrations; index.

West, Anthony James. “Ownership of Shakespeare First Folios over Four Centuries.” Library, 7^th ser., 10 (2009), 405-08.

West, Susie. “An Architectural Typology for the Early Modern Country House Library, 1660-1720.” The Library, 7th series, 14 (2013), 441-64. [A survey of the neglected field of the material circumstances of books, their storage in libraries, studies, or closets, noting the “poor survival rate of library rooms and their design drawings” and the few discussions of them in contemporary writings. This is followed by a survey of rooms for books in houses in Norfolk, offered “as a model for understanding the material form of the early modern library in the English country house.” West thinks that rooms dedicated to books were ubiquitous after 1660, and that women were likely to have had their own libraries in their closets. West, despite some awkward or obscure phrasing, gives “spatial form to social practices of book ownership.”

West, Susie. "Studies and Status: Space for Books in Seventeenth-Century Penshurst Place." Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 12, no. 3 (2002), 266-92.

Westerhof, Danielle (ed.). The Alchemy of Medicine and Print: The Edward Worth Library, Dublin. Foreword by Michael Lyons. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Pp. 224; illustrations. [With papers from a conference in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London. The library is at Dr. Steevens’ Hospital; Worth’s dates are 1678-1733. The volume includes the editor’s introduction (“The Intellectual Alchemy of Medicine and Print”) and such essays as Davis Coakley’s “Edward Worth and His Library”; Charles Benson’s “Some Private Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland”; Jean-Paul Pittion’s “Medicine in Print in the Early Modern Period: Medical Books in Marsh’s Library”; Michael Hunter’s “Robert Boyle and the Uses of Print”; Sachiko Kusukawa’s “Syphillis (morbus gallicus) in Print before 1733 in the Edward Worth Collection, Dublin.”]

Wheale, Nigel. Writing and Society: Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain (1590-1660). London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xiv + 188; illus.; index. [Rev. by Daniel Knauss in Sixteenth-Century Journal, 33 (2002), 290-92; by Kevin Sharpe in Journal of British Studies, 41 (2002), 244-54.]

Wheeler, Gordon Wheeler. "Bishop Francis Hutchinson: His Irish Publications and His Library." Pp. 140-58 in An Uncommon Bookman: Essays in Memory of J. R. R. Adams. Edited by John Gray and Wesley McCann. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.

Whitehead, Barbara J. (ed.). Women's Education in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. New York: Garland, 1999. Pp. xvi + 260; illus.; index.

Whitesell, David R. "Thomas Jefferson and the Book Arts." Printing History, 24, no. 2 (Fall 2004), 3-24.

Widder, Agnes Haigh. “The John Askin Family Library: A Fur-Trading Family’s Books.” Michigan Historical Review, 33, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 27-57. [John Askin’s dates are 1739-1815.]

Widmayer, Anne F. “Scandalous Will, Or, Congreve’s Library and Female Power.” 1650-1850, 17 (2010), 37-55. [William Congreve bequeathed his personal library of over 600 books to Henrietta Godolphin, second Duchess of Marlborough, stipulating that it remain intact during her life, and she in turn left it to her daughter Mary, future Duchess of Leeds, with the same stipulation. Widmayer examines Congreve’s possibly intimate relations with the Duchess (including his being the father of Mary) in the light of these bequests. Rev. (favorably) in Scriblerian, 44, no. 2-45, no. 1 (2012), 5-6.]

Wiedemann, Konrad, with the assistance of Peter-Paul Schneider (comps.). Die Bibliothek Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis: Ein Katalog. (Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Dokumente zu Leben und Werk, 1-2.) Vols. 1-2. Stuttgart and Bad Canstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1989. Pp. xliv + 452; vi, 453-942. [Rev. of Vol. 1 by Rainer A. Bast and of Vol. 2 by Klaus Schreiber in Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 38 (1991), 160-61 {Vol. 1} and 174-76 {Vol. 2}.]

Wiegand, Wayne A. “Library History Research in the United States.” Libraries & Culture, 25, no. 1 (1990), 103-14. [In an issue with surveys of 20C research on library history in diverse countries, edited by Paul Kaegbein and Paul Sturges, papers from a symposium April 1998 at the Herzog August Bibliothek on “Library History Research in the International Context.”]

Wiegand, Wayne A. (comp.). "The Literature of American Library History, 1983-1984”; “_____ 1985-1986"; "_____ 1987-1988." Libraries and Culture, 21, no. 4 (1986), 723-63; 23 (1988), 332-64; 25 (1990), 543-74.

Wiegand, Wayne A. Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 331.

Wiegand, Wayne A., and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Library History. (Garland Reference Library of the Social Sciences, 503.) New York: Garland, 1994. Pp. xxxi + 707; index. [Rev. (favorably) by Michael Buckland in Library Quarterly, 65 (1995), 262-64; by D. J. Foskett in Journal of Documentation, 51 (1995), 190-91 (favorably) by David V. Loertscher in American Reference Books Annual, 26 (1995), 280, item 637; (favorably with reservations) by Daniel F. Ring in Libraries and Culture, 30 (1995), 204-05; (favorably) by John B. Rutledge in College and Research Libraries, 56, no. 1 (1995), 88-89.]

Wigginton, Caroline. “A Late Night Vindication: Annis Boudinot Stockton’s Reading of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Legacy, 25 (2008), 225-38.

Wilfinger, Laura. “De Abbt à Zimmermann: Le Catalogue de la bibliotheque de Benjamin Constant.” Annales Benjamin Constant, 36 (2011), 111-29.

Wilken, Curtis B. "An Examination of American Reading Textbooks, 1785-1819, as an Expression of Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory, and as a Precursor to Nineteenth-Century Writing Instruction." Dissertation, Ball State U., 2003. Pp. vi + 227; facsimiles. [Abstracted in DAI: 64A/02 (August 2003), 489. Wilken examined 25 reading textbooks published in American between 1785 and 1819.]

Wilkens-Jones, Clive (ed.). Norwich City Library, 1608-1737: The Minute, Donation Book and Catalogue of Norwich City Library, Founded in 1608. Norwich: Norwich Record Society, 2008. Pp. 337. [With a 44-page introduction by Wilkens-Jones. Rev. by Herman A. Peterson in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (2009), 496-97.]

Wilkie, Everett C., Jr. "'Une Bibliothèque Bien Fournie': The Earliest Known Caribbean Library." Libraries & Culture, 25 (1990), 171-93; illus.

Wilkie, Everett C., Jr. “White Kennett’s Books in the Houghton Library.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 74 (2011), 71-83.

Wilkins, Kay. "Andréa de Nerciat and the Libertine Tradition in Eighteenth-Century France." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 256 (1988), 225-36.

Will, Erich. "Freiburger Universitätskameralistik in der Zeit des Ordinariats von Franz Joseph Bob 1768-1786." Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, 26 (1992/1993 [1993]), 77-122.

Willems, P. J. M. Bibliotheca Fletcheriana; or, The Extraordinary Library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Reconstructed and Systematically Arranged. Wassenaar: [for the author] (also distributed through Leiden: Het Oosters Antiquarium), 1999. Pp. xvii + 235; illus. [Anthony Fletcher (1653-1716) of East Lothian, known in part for political tracts (gathered in 1733), held perhaps Scotland's largest library in his day. Willems reconstructs his library employing the two autograph catalogues of the collection (at the National Library of Scotland), auction records of Sotheby's sales of his books (particularly in 1940s and 1960s), and Willems' own examination of hundreds of Fletcher's books, which he purchased. Willems's introduction includes an analysis of the library's contents and his catalogue, arranged by author, provides short titles and references to the manuscript catalogues. Rev. (briefly; favorably) by John Robertson in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no. 14 (Spring 2000), 33; by John Robertson in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 95 (2001), 381-83.]

Willes, Margaret. Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 295; illustrations. A historical account of book buying and selling. Rev. by Anthony Hobson in TLS (5 December 2008), 22; by Willis Regier in Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 40 (2009), 446-48.]

Williams, Kelcey Jackson. “Training the Virtuoso: John Aubrey’s Education and Early Life.” Seventeenth Century, 27, no. 2 (2012), 157-82.

Williamson, Karina. “Christopher Smart in the House of Bodley.” Bodleian Library Record, 15, no. 2 (April 1995), 131-35.

Willing, Antje. Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Katharina zu Nürnberg: Synoptische Darstellung der Bücherverzeichnisse. 2 vols. Berlin: Akademie, 2012.

Willis, Gordon. “Hogg’s Personal Library: Holdings in Stirling University Library.” Studies in Hogg and His World, 3 (1992), 87-88.

Willison, Ian. "The Development of the British National Library to 1837 in its European Context: An Essay in Retrospect." Library History, 12 (1996), 31-48.

Willison, I[an]. R. "The History of the Book in the Humanities." Pp. 91-120 in Zukunftsaspekte der Geisteswissenschaften: Vier Vorträge. Edited by Bernhard Fabian. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1996. [On "the role of the history of the book and libraries as a field of research within the humanities in general."]

Willison, I[an]. R. "Legal Deposit: A Provisional Perspective." Publishing History, no. 45 (1999), 5-34.

Willison, Ian R. "The National Library in Historical Perspective." Libraries and Culture, 24 (1989), 75-95.

Wilson, D. S. “The Treatment of Education in the Encyclopédie.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 11, no. 1 (1988), 27-38.

Wilson, Douglas L. "Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (1992/93), 669-85.

Wilson, Douglas L. "Thomas Jefferson's Library and the Skipworth List." Harvard Library Bulletin, 3 (1992/93), 56-72.

Wilson, Philip K. "Reading a Man Through His Gifts: Daniel Turner's 1722 Book Donation to Yale College." Yale University Library Gazette, 69, nos. 3-4 (1995), 129-48; checklist of Turner's donation.

Wilson, Renate. "Übersetzungen englischer und deutscher Erweckungsliteratur im Spiegel der Bestände der Hauptbibliothek der Frankeschen Stiftungen zu Halle 1700-1750." Pietismus und Neuzeit, 26 (2000), 81-93.

Wimmer, Mario. Archivkörper: Eine Geschichte historische Einbildungskraft. Paderborn: Konstanz University Press, 2012. Pp. 335; illus. [Archiv historiography. Originally produced for a Ph.D. dissertation at Bielefeld.]

Winkelmann, Carol L. “A Case Study of Women’s Literacy in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Oxinden Family Letters.” Women and Language, 19, no. 2 (1996), 14-20.

Winterer, Caroline. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2004. Pp. x + 244. [Rev. (fav.) by Karl Galinsky in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41 (2006), 523-24.]

Wisser, Katherine M. “The Organization of Knowledge and Bibliographic Classification in Nineteenth-Century America.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. Pp. 319.

Witczakowa, Olga Dobijanka. "Bericht über die Aufnahme der deutschen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts in Polen." Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 19 (1995), 81-91.

Wittmann, Reinhard. "Una 'rivoluzione della lettura' alla fine del XVIII secolo?" In Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale. Ed. by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. Rome: Laterza, 1995. Pp. 471.

Wittmann, Reinhard. “Was There a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century.” Pp. 284-312 in A History of Reading in the West. Ed. by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 478. [Presumably this text is that printed on pp. 39-51 in The History of Reading: A Reader, ed. by Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone, and Katie Halsey (2011).]

Wolf, Edwin, II. The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers. New York: Oxford U. Press; Oxford: Clarendon, 1988. Pp. viii + 227; appendices; illus. [Rev. (with other books) by Nicolas Barker in Book Collector, 38 (1989), 557-60; by C. Y. Ferdinand in Notes and Queries, 235 (1990), 225; by Nicholas Rombes, Jr., in ECCB, n.s. 14 (for 1988 [1995]), 10; by Boyd Stanley in British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 13 (1990), 122-23; by Calhoun Winton in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 46 (1989), 609-11.]

Wolf, Edwin, II. “Franklin’s Library.” Pp. 319-34 of Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. Edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark, DE: U. of Delaware Press, 1993. Pp. 499.

Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, 29, 1-2 (2004. [The essays focus on problems in provenance research and include A. Schlechter and Thomas Stacker's "Auf den Spuren der Bucher: Provenienzforschung und irhe Probleme"; J. M. M. Hermans's "Ex origine lux: Besitz- und Benutzerangaben als Schlüssel zum Verständnis von Handschrift und Frühdruck"; S. Knackmuß's "Ein preußischer helluo librorum des 17. Jahrhunderts und seine animadversiunculae: Eine bibliotheksgeschichtliche Entdeckung in den Sammlungen des Berlinischen Gymnasiums zum Grauen Kloster"; and J. Mötsch's "Das Provenienzprinzip im Archiv."]

Wolff, Katherine. Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. Pp. 256. [Rev. by Jeremy B. Dibbell in Libraries and the Cultural Record, 45 (2010), 499-501.] Ainsworth, David. Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. ix + 233.

Wolfzun, Ludmila. “Le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier [1752-1817], premier directeur de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de Russie.” Histoire et civilisation du livre, 3 (2007), 329-38.

Womersley, David. "An Annotated Copy of Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works (1796)." Notes and Queries, 47 (2000), 216-18. [With characterizations of the "pencil annotations," one dated 1834, in a copy recently sold by Blackwell's Rare Books; including an appendix with transcriptions, including an unknown poetic riposte to verses published in the Gentleman's Magazine (January 1797).]

Wood, Karen. "Making and Circulating Knowledge through Sir William Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei." British Journal for the History of Science, 39 (2006), 67-96. [Print culture study of "changes incurred" when the writings of Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) were "translated between written, oral, painted, and printed formats," attending to different readerships and focusing in detail on Campi Phelgraei.]

Wood, Paul B. The Aberdeen Enlightenment: The Arts Curriculum in the Eighteenth Century. (Quincentennial Studies Series.) Aberdeen: Aberdeen U. Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 240. [Rev. (fav.) by T. M. Devine in Paedagogica Historica, 30 (1994), 953-54.

Wood, Paul (ed.). The Culture of the Book in the Scottish Enlightenment: An Exhibition with Essays by Roger Emerson, Richard Sher, Stephen Brown, and Paul Wood. Preface by Paul Wood. Introduction by Richard Landon. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, U. of Toronto, 2000. Pp. 160; bibliography [120-58]; illus. (including colored plates). [The exhibition occurred 28 Sept. to 22 Dec. 2000. The four essays are Emerson's "Catalogus Librorum A.C.D.A., or The Library of Archibald Campbell, Third Duke of Argyll (1682-1761)" (13-39); Sher's "The Book in the Scottish Enlightenment" (40-61); Brown's William Smellie and the Culture of the Edinburgh Book Trade, 1752-1795" (61-86); and Wood's "Marginalia on the Mind: John Robinson and Thomas Reid" (89-119). Rev. by Sharon Alker in SHARP News, 11, no. 2 (Spring 2002), 13-14; (fav.) by Henry L. Fulton in East-Central Intelligencer, n.s. 15, no. 3 (September 2001), 23-25; by William Zachs in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no. 15 (2001), 37.]

Woolf, D. R. Reading History in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2000. Pp. xvi + 360; illus.; maps. [On the production, distribution, reading of history books, 1475-1730. Rev. by Andrew Gordon in SHARP News, 11, no. 2 (Spring 2002), 11-12; by Peter S. Graham in Renaissance Quarterly, 55 (2002), 757-58; by Thomas F. Mayer in Sixteenth-Century Journal, 33 (2002), 1107-08; by Michael Mendle in Seventeenth-Century News, 62 (2004), 105-08; by David Norbrook in English Historical Review, 118 (2003), 1329-30; (in a review essay) by R. C. Richardson in Clio, 31 (2002), 167-77. (fav.; with another book) by Kevin Sharpe in TLS (July 13, 2001), 30.]

Woolf, Daniel R. The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture, 1500-1730. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2003. Pp. xvii + 421; illus.

Woolley, David. “The Dean’s Library and the Interlopers.” Swift Studies, 4 (1989), 2-12. [Examines an unpriced Catalogue of Books, the Library of the Late Rev. Dr. Swift (Dublin: Geo. Faulkner, 1745), a copy sold at Bloomsbury Book Auction and acquired by Yale U. and subsequently described in Book Collector, 38 (1989), 68-78. This copy has an MS list of 32 books after the catalogue ends on p. 16, and Woolley questions, as with contemporary witnesses regarding the sale, whether it’s accurate to claim, as that article’s sub-title does, that these are “Thirty-two New Books from the Library of Jonathan Swift.”