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

Barth, Susanne. Mädchenlektüren: Lesediskurse im 18. und 19.Jahrundert. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2002. Pp. 312; illus. [Rev. by Susanne Blumesberger in Biblos, 53 (2003), 281; by Rüdiger Steinlein in Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (2003), 114-16.]

Bartoli Langeli, Attilio, and Xenio Toscani (eds.). Istruzione, alfabetismo, scrittura: Saggi di storia dell'alfabetizzazione in Italia (sec. XV-XIX). (Storia dell'educazione, 2.) Milan: Franco Angeli, 1991. Pp. 338; illus.; index.

Bartolomé Martínez, Bernabé. "La crianza y educación de los expósitos en España entre la Ilustración y el Romanticismo (1790-1835)." Historia de la Educación, 10 (1991), 33-62.

Bas Martín, Nicolás. Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745-1799) y la fundación del Archivo General de Indias. Valencia: Direccio General del Libre i Coordinacio Bibliothecària, 2000. Pp. 189; bibliography; illustrations.

Bas Martín, Nicolás. “Libros raros y curiosas españoles en un catálogo francés del siglo XVIII.” Pliegos de Bibliofilia, no. 18 (2002), 21-44.

Barrio Moya, Jose Luis. "La Librería del obispo José González Díaz de Villalobos." Hispania sacra, 43 (1991), 329-41.

Basbanes, Nicholas. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Holt, 1995. Pp. xvi + 638; plates. [Survey of famous collectors. Rev. (favorably) by Joseph Rosenblum in Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 9 (1995), 126-28.]

Basbanes, Nicholas. Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Culture. (2001).

Basbanes, Nicholas. A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Pp. 444. [Historical overview of threats to the written word. Rev. (fav.) by Basil Stuart-Stubbs in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 42, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 101-02.]

Basurto Larrañaga, Román. La biblioteca de Pedro Fontecha Salazar: Jurisconsulto vasco del siglo XVIII. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Eusko Bibliographia, 1990. Pp. 202.

Bator, Paul G. "The Entrance of the Novel into the Scottish Universities." Pp. 89-102 in The Scottish Invention of English Literature. Edited by Robert Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1998.

Batt, Jennifer. “’It ought not to be lost to the World’: The Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth-Century Lyric Verse.” Review of English Studies, 62 (2011), 414-32.

Battini, Annalisa. “La donazione del cancelliere Voroncov alla Biblioteca Estense di Modena.” Quaderni estensi, 5 (2013), 259-84. [On Russian books given by the Russian chancellor Michail Voroncov to the Duke of Este, now held by the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria in Modena.]

Battles, Kelly E. “The Antiquarian Impulse: History, Affect, and Material Culture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State U., 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, 69A, no. 4 (2008), 1370-71.

Battles, Matthew. Libraries: An Unquiet History. London: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x + 245; illustrations; index. [Catalogued in RLIN as Library: An Unquiet History, yet reviewed with title here employed. Includes the chapter "The Battle of the Books" c. 1700, involving Sir William Temple, Richard Bentley and others. Rev. by B. Duckett in Library History, 21 (2005), 65-66; by Frances Wood in TLS (19 & 26 Dec. 2003), 38.]

Bauch, Klaus-P., and Maria-B. Schröder (eds.). Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Wieland-Bibliothek: Bearbeitet nach dem "Verzeichniss der Bibliothek des verewigten Herrn Hofraths Wieland, 1814." (Schriftenreihe des Antiquariats Klaus-P. Bauch, 1.) Hanover: Internationalismus, 1993. Pp. 247; illustrations; index; portrait.

Baudot, Oswald. "Les tribulations d'une bibliothèque: Le témoignage des ex-libris des livres du séminaire de Vence." Revue d'histoire de l'Eglise de France, 83 (1997), 97-115.

Bauler-Margue, Andree. "La bibliothèque d'Antoine Feller, curé de Saint-Nicholas 1673-1717." Pp. 33-42 in Le Luxembourg en Lotharingie: Mélanges Paul Margue. Luxembourg: Éditions Saint-Paul, 1993.

Baumgarten, Jean. Le People des livres: Les Ovrages populaires dans la société ashkénaze XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Albin Michel, 2010. Pp. 576.

Baurmeister, Ursula, and Marie Pierre Laffitte. Des Livres et des rois: La Bibliothèque royale de Blois. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France; Quai Voltaire, 1992. Pp. 239; illus. [Largely on the Renaissance period.]

Baustert, Raymond. “Le Jansénisme dans in periodique Luxembourgeois du XVIIIe siècle: Les articles ‘jansénistes’ de la clef du cabinet des princes de 1704 à 1715.” Pp. 143-62 in Le Jansénisme et l’Europe (Biblio 17.) Edited by Raymond Baustert. Tübingen: Narr, 1910.

Bawcutt, Priscilla. “Dunbar and His Readers: From Allan Ramsay to Richard Burton.” Studies in Scottish Literature, 35-36 (2013), 362-81. [This double-volume was the last edited by G. Ross Roy, and should have appeared earlier. A separately printed festschrift, Robert Burns & Friends: Essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows (2012), honoring Roy, was then also issued as Volume 37 to increase access to the essays; Volumes 38-, edited by Patrick Scott, were published in 2012 and following.]

Bayman, Anna. “Printing, Learning and the Unlearned.” Pp. 76-87 of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660. Edited by Joad Raymond. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2011. Pp. xxix + 672; illus. [With an introduction by the editor, “The Origins of Popular Print Culture” (1-14). The volume’s contents are fully surveyed by William Baker in “Bibliography and Textual Criticism” within Years Work in English Studies, 93 (for 2012 [2014]).]

Barzazi, Antonella. “’Un Tempo assai riche e piene di libri di merito’: Le Biblioteche dei Regolari tra sviluppa e dispersione.” Pp. 71-91 in “Alli 10 Agosto 1806 Soppressione del Monastero di S. Giorgio”: Atti del Convegno di Studi nel Bicentenario, Venezia San Giorgio Maggiore, 10-11 Novembre 2006. (Studi e Documenti di Storia Monastica, 34.) Edited by Giovanni Vian. Cesena: Centro Storico Benedettino Italiano, 2011.

Beadle, Richard. "Medieval English Manuscripts at Auction 1676-c. 1700." Book Collector, 53 (2004), 46-63; 2 plates.

Beal, Peter (ed.). Discovering, Identifying, and Editing Early Modern Manuscripts. (English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 18.). London: British Library, 2013 [2014]. Pp. 272; 25 illustrations; indices. [This tribute to Harold Love includes essays on authorship as well as texts and collections, such as Colin Tite’s “Humfrey Wanley [1671-1726], William Hanbury, and the Transfer of Papers from the Cotton Library to the Harley Collection” (19-54); Grace Ioppolo’s “The Clitherow Manuscript of The Destruction of Hierusalem”; Robert D. Hume’s “Feniza or The Ingenious Mayde: A ‘Lost’ Carolean Comedy Found--and a Source for Shadwell’s The Amorous Bigotte”; Paul Davis’s “An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts” (139-72); and Heather F. Windram, Christopher J. Howe, and Ruth Connolly’s “Thinking ‘bibliographically’: Phylogenetic Analysis and Systems of Manuscript Circulation.’”]

Beal, Peter. “’The Most constant and best entertainment’: Sir George Etherege’s Reading in Ratisbon.” Library, 6th ser., 10 (1988), 122-44. [Library collection study.]

Beal, Peter. "My Books Are the Great Joy of My Life': Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-Century Bibliophile." The Book Collector, 46 (1997), 350-78.

Beal, Peter. "Note 567: More Books from Sir William Boothby's Library." The Book Collector, 47 (1998), 577-80. [See also Doyle below.]

Beal, Peter. “Notions in Garrison: The Seventeenth-Century Commonplace Book.” Pp. 131-47 in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts. Edited by W. Speed Hill. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993.

Beal, Peter. "Sir George Etherege's Library at Ratisbon." Library, 7th ser., 3 (2002), 315-16.

Beales, Ross W., Jr. “Ebenezer Parkman’s World of Print: A Country Parson and the Print culture of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America.” Library & Information History, 31 (2015), 229-57. [Beales uses a “lengthy diary of Revd. Ebenezer Parkman (1703-82) of Westborough, Massachusetts” to identify his reading (periodicals and books) and the acquisition and distribution of such materials (gifts, loans, purchases); he also covers Parkman’s modest publications and efforts to promote the publications of others.]

Beasley, Jerry C. "Translation and Cultural Translatio." Pp. 94-106 in The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale. Edited by Carmen Benito-Vessels and Michael Zappala. Newark, DE: U. of Delaware Press, 1994.

Beaucamp, Gerta. Joahnn Christian Polycarp Erxleben: Versuch einer Biographie und Bibliographie. (Lichtenberg-Studien, 9.) Göttingen: Wallstein, 1994. Pp. 88; bibliography. [Erxleben, a friend of Lichtenberg living in Göttingen, was an important scientist and author.]

Beaudry, Catherine A. "The Library of Isaac Norris II: The Formation of an Educated Reader in the Philadelphia of the Early Enlightenment." The East-Central Intelligencer, n.s. 8, no. 2 (May 1994), 6-13.

Beavan, Iain. “Marischal College Library, Aberdeen, in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview.” Library & Information History, 31 (2015), 258-79.

Beavan, Iain, Peter Davidson, and Jane Stevenson (eds.). The Library and Archive Collections at the University of Aberdeen: An Introduction and Description. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 384; illustrations. [A survey with 85 descriptive entries by 27 contributors. Rev. by Karen Attar in Library and Information History, 29 (2013), 59-60.]

Becedas González. “Primeros reglamentos de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca, 1775-1776.” Pp. 37-48 in De libros y bibliotecas: Homenaje a Rocío Caracuel. Edited by Sonsoles Celestino Angulo. Foreword by José M. Vega Pigueres. Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, 1994.

Becker, Christoph. Vom Raritäten-Kabinett zur Sammlung als Institution: Sammeln und Ordnen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Egelsbach: Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 1996.

Becker, Peter Jörg. “Bibliotheksreisen in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert.” Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 21, nos. 5-6 (1980), 1361-1534; summary in English, French, and German.

Beckerman, Edwin (ed.). A History of New Jersey Libraries 1750-1996. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997. Pp. xxii + 267.

Beckmann, Friedhelm. "Französische Privatbibliotheken: Untersuchungen zu Literatursystematik und Buchbesitz im 18. Jahrhundert." Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 31 (1988), 1-162; illus.; index; summary in English and French. [Also separately issued: Frankfurt: Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 1988. Rev. by Henri Duranton in Francia, 18, no. 2 (1991), 259-60; (fav.) by Françoise Weil in Revue d'histoire de littéraire de la France, 91 (1991), 98-99.]

Beckwith, Frank. The Leeds Library, 1768-1968. 2nd ed. Leeds: Leeds Library, 1994. Pp. xvi + 114; illustration. [Rev. by K. A. Manley in Library History, 10 (1994), 101-02.]

Beddard, R. A. "A Traitor's Gift: Hugh Peter's Donation to the Bodleian Library." Bodleian Library Record, 16, no. 5 (April 1999), 374-90. [Peter was executed in 1660.]

Bedeaux, J. C. Een onbekend rouwdicht op Gisbert Cuper, hoogleraar van Gent bij zijn afscheid als bibliothecaris der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Edited by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck and A. Th. Bouwman. Leiden: B. J. Brill / Universitaire Pers Leiden, 1993. Pp. xxiii + 318; illustrations.

Bednarska-Ruszajowa, Krystyna. "Biblioteki w polskich oswieceniowych opisach podrózy zagranicznych." [Libraries described by Poles travelling out of the country.] Biuletyn Biblioteki Jagiellonskiej (1996), 1/2: 241-51.

Bednarska-Ruszajowa, Krystyna. Od Homera do Jana Jakuba Rousseau: w Kregu lektur profesorów Krakowskich okresu Oswiecenia. (Rozprawy Habilitacyjne, U. Jagiellonski, 210.) Cracow: Nakl. U. Jagiellonskiego, 1991. Pp. 235; bibliography; index; summary in German. [On books and readers in eighteenth-century Cracow.]

Beggi Miani, Licia. “Circoli di lettura e conversazione a Modena 1789-1862.” Atti e memorie: Deputazione di storia patria per le antiche provincie modenesi, series 9, 31 (2009), 233-42.

Bégue, Alain. Las Academias literarias en la segunda mida del siglo XVII catálogo descriptivo de los impresos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional, 2007. Pp. 380; bibliography; index.

Belin, Amélia, and Aurélie Zygel-Basso. “Figures du recueil: Les contes de fées en leurs Cabinets au XVIII^e siècle.” Lumen, 29 (2010), 71-89; illustrations.

Bell, Alan. "The Edinburgh Tercentennial: Founded 1689, Still Going Strong . . . ." Book Collector, 38 (1989), 445-63. [On the Advocates' Library; largely a review essay.]

Bell, Bill, Philip Bennet, and Jonquil Bevan (eds.). Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture and Commerce. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 2000. Pp. ix + 160; diagrams; illustrations; index; tables. [Nine essays originally presented at a 1996 conference in Edinburgh; those relevant to our period are Bell's "Crusoe's Books: The Scottish Emigrant Reader in the Nineteenth Century" (116-129); Fiona Black's "Beyond Boundaries: Books in the Canadian Northwest" ((91-115; tables and figures); compare her "Books by Express Canoe in the Canadian Northwest, 1750-1820" in Bibliotheck, 21 (1996), 12-33); Roger Chartier's methodological discussion "Orality Lost: Text and Voice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (1-28); Wallace Kirsop's "Patronage across Frontiers: Subscription Publishing in French in Enlightenment Europe" (57-72); and James Raven's "Commodification and Value: Interactions in Book Traffic to North America, c. 1750-1820" (73-90). For very brief summaries, see Cara Bradley account in Libraries and Culture, 37 (2002), 387-91.]

Bell, David N. "An Eighteenth-Century Book-List from the Abbey of Grosbot." Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses (Brecht, Belgium), 48 (1997), 339-71.

Bell, David. "The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe in the Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey." Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses (Brecht, Belgium), 49 (1998), 129-58.

Bell, David N. The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe: A Study of the History from the Twelfth Century to the French Revolution, with an Annotated Edition of the 1752 Catalogue. (Medieval Church Studies, 32; Studia et Documenta, 15.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Pp. xiv + 643; illustrations. Rev. by David J. Shaw in Library & Information History, 31 (2015), 54-55.]

Bell, David N. "A 1790 Book-List from the Abbey of Trizay." Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses (Brecht, Belgium), 49 (1998), 309-62.

Bell, Maureen. "Reading in Seventeenth-Century Derbyshire: The Wheatcrofts and their Books." Pp. 161-68 in The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade. Edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll; Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 2001.

Bell, Maureen. “Titus Wheatcroft: An Eighteenth-Century Reader and his Manuscripts” (235-61) of From Compositors to Collectors: Essays on Book-Trade History. Edited by John Hinks and Matthew Day. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 382; illus. [Treats the library of and cataloguing of it by Wheatcroft’s (1679-1762), whose inventorying occurred from 1723 for two decades.]

Bell, Richard. “In Werther’s Thrall: Suicide and the Power of Sentimental Reading in Early National America.” Early American Literature, 46 (2011), 93-120.

Bell, Richard. “Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America.” Pp. 49-63 in The History of Reading. Volume 1: International Perspectives. Edited by Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Belledent, F.-G. "La Bibliothèque publique de l'Université de Perpignan au XVIIIe siècle." Revue française d'Histoire du livre, 88-89 (1995), 267-99; illus.

Benedetti, Amedeo. “La Biblioteca della Società Geografica Italiana.” Biblioteche oggi, 27, no. 3 (2009), 41-51.

Benedict, Barbara M. "The 'Beauties' of Literature, 1750-1820: Tasteful Prose and Fine Rhyme for Private Consumption." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 1 (1994), 317-46; 5 of illus.

Benedict, Barbara M. "The Eighteenth Century Anthology and the Construction of the Expert Reader." Poetics, 28 (2001), 377-97.

Benedict, Barbara M. "Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy." Pp. 147-200 in Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement. Ed. by Paula R. Backscheider. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 273; illus.; index.

Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Meditation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 252; bibliographies [chronological checklist of early anthologies; bibliography of secondary sources]; illus.; index.

Benedict, Barbara. "The Paradox of Anthology: Collecting and différence in Eighteenth-Century Britain." New Literary History, 34 (2003), 56-57.

Benedict, Barbara M. "Readers, Writers, Critics and the Professionalization of Literature." In Cambridge Companion to English Literature from 1740 to 1830. Ed. by Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 308; illus.; index.

Benedict, Barbara M. “Reading Collections: The Literary Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Libraries.” In Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900. Edited by Paul Keen and Ina Ferris. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 256; 5 illus.

Benhamou, Paul."Essai d'inventaire des instruments de lecture publique des gazettes." Pp. 121-29 in Les gazettes européennes de langue française (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles): Table ronde internationale, Saint-Etienne, 21-23 mai 1992. Edited by Henri Duranton, Claude Labrosse, and Pierre Rétat (eds.). Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 1992. Pp. 349; bibliography; checklist of gazettes [331-46]; illus.; maps.

Benhamou, Paul. "La Lecture publique des journaux." Dix-huitième siècle, 24 (1992), 283-95; 1 of plate.

Benhamou, Paul. "La Lecture des oeuvres de l'Abbé Prévost à Paris et en province dans la seconde moitié du XVIII^e siècle." Cahiers Prévost d'Exiles, 6 (1989), 151-66.

Benhamou, Paul. "The Reading Trade in Lyons: Cellier's cabinet de lecture." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 308 (1993), 305-321.

Benhamou, Paul. "The Reading Trade in Pre-Revolutionary France." Documentatieblad Werkgroep achttiende eeuw, 23 (1991), 143-50.

Benito Moya, Silvana G. A. “Bibliotecas y libros en la cultura universitaria de Córdoba durante los siglos XVII y XVIII.” Información, cultura, y sociedad, 26 (2012), 13-39.

Bennett, Kate. “John Aubrey and the Printed Book.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 76, no. 3 (2013), 393-411.

Bennett, Kate. "John Aubrey's Collections and the Early Modern Museum." Bodleian Library Record, 17, nos. 3-4 (April-October 2001), 213-45; illus. [Part of a collection on "Cultures of Collecting in Oxford Libraries and Beyond," with an introduction by Bennett.]

Bennett, Kate (ed.). "John Aubrey's Oxfordshire Collections: An Edition of Aubrey’s Annotations to his Presentation Copy of Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire [1677], Bodleian Libary Ashmore 1722.” Oxoniensa, 64 (1999), 59-86.

Benson, Charles, and Siobhan Fitzpatrick (eds.). That Woman--Studies in Irish Bibliography: A Festschrift for Mary "Paul" Pollard. Forward by Maurice Craig; Introduction by Charles Benson. Dublin: Library Association of Ireland Rare Books Group and the Lilliput Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 310; bibliography of publications by Pollard [287-89]; illus.; index. [Contributions include Toby Barnard's "Children and Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland" (213-38); Raymond Gillespie's "Irish Cathedral Libraries before 1700" (175-92).]

Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Bibliomania: The Felicitous Infection and the Comforting Cure.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 45, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 7-41; summary in French.

Benucci, Michele, and Susanna Sarti. “A Private Library in 19th-Century Rome: The Sale of Giovanni Pietro Campana’s Library.” Pp. 133-44 in Excaliber: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor. Edited by Hildegard Wiegel and Michael Vickers. London: British Archaeological Reports, 2013. Pp. 183.

Benvenuti, Daniel. Il cardinale Ignazio Boncompagni Ludovisi (1743-1790) e la sua biblioteca. Contributo alla definizione di un profilo intellettuale, bibliografico e documentario. (Biblioteche riemerse, 5.) Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2014. Pp. 139. [Rev. by Luca Rivali in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 31 (September 2014), 13.]

Benvenuti, Daniel. “Un episodio di collezionismo nel Settecento: Incunaboli nelle biblioteche di Silvio e Luigi Valenti Gonzaga.” Le Fusa del Gatto: Libri, librai, e moto altro (Florence), 3 (2014), 141-48.

Berek, Peter. “The Market for Playbooks and the Development of the Reading Public.” Philological Quarterly, 91 (2012), 151-84. [In an issue entitled “Shakespeare for Sale.”]

Bérenguier, Nadine. Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 294; bibliography; 8 illustrations; index.[On the role of conduct book in girls’ education, with an examnation of nine authors, including Marquise de Lambert, Mme de Beaumont, Mme d’Epinay, and the Chevalier de Cerfvol. Much attention is given to contemporary reviews to determine reception, and the devoloping tradition is placed in the context of the Enlightenment. Rev. by Katherine Astbury in French Studies, 67 (2013), 557; by Nancy McElveen in XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 10 (2013), 74-75; (favorably) by Susan Pickford in SHARP News, 21, no. 2 (Spring 2012), 10; (mixed) by Jill Shefrin in Children’s Books History Society Newsletter, no. 102 (April 2012), 34-38.]

Beretta, Marco. Bibliotheca Lavoisieriana: The Catalogue of the Library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. (Biblioteca di Nuncius Studi e Testi, 16; Uppsala Studies in the History of Science, 20.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1995. Pp. 361; illus. (some in color); index.

Berg, Temma. “Eighteenth-Century Reading Sites.” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, 55 (2006), 15-35.

Bergamini, Giuseppe. (ed.). “A pubblico, e perpetuo, commodo della sua diocesi”: Libri antichi, rari e preziosi delle biblioteche diocesane del Friuli (secc. XV-XVIII). Catalogo della mostra Udine, chiesa di Sant’Antonio abate e museo diocesano e Gallerie del Tiepolo, 30 ottobre 2009-15 gennaio 2010. Udine: Museo Diocesano e Gallerie del Tiepolo, 2009. Pp. 272. [Includes essays such as David Bandelj’s “Cultura slovena nelle biblioteche patriarcali” (109-12); Liliana Cargnelutti’s “Gli storici del Friuli dal XVI al XVIII secolo” (81-86); Silvano Cavazza’s “Cultura Tedesca in Friuli” (95-100) and “Reforma e Controriforma” (105-08); Rudj Gorian’s “La Biblioteca del Seminario Teologico Centrale di Gorizia” (69-74) and “I gesuiti a Gorizia (secoli XVII-XVIII)” (101-04); and “Periodici (secoli XVII-XVIII)” (155-58); “Libri liturgici e devozionali (91-94); Lorenzo di Lenardo’s “Editori udinesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo” (87-90); and Andrea Marcon’s “La legature” (151-54), “Il libro scientifico” (131-34), and “La Biblioteca del Seminario concordiese tra XVIII e XIX secolo” (61-67); Cristina Moro’s “La Biblioteca Bartoliniana” (57-60); Katia Piazza’s “Udine: Biblioteche ecclesiastiche: Gli opuscoli e i fogli volanti” (121-30); and Sandro Piussi’s “La Biblioteca del Seminario” (31-40), “Le biblioteche del Capitolo cattedrale di Aquileia e del Capitolo Collegiato di Udine ora del Capitolo tuo commodo della sua Diocesi” (25-30); and “Udine: La Biblioteca patriarcale-arcivescovile” (41-56); Ugo Rozzo’s “L’Encyclopédie” (159-64), and “Un grande patrimonio bibliografico: Le biblioteche dei seminari” (13-24); Francesca Tamburlini’s “Gli statuti della Patria del Friuli nell’arco di tre secoli (1484-1785)” (77-80). Rev. by Alessandro Ledda in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 13 (March 2010), 3-4.]