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

Mulsow, Martin. “Peter Friedrich Arpe, Collectionneur.” (Translated by Pierre-François Burger.) Lettre clandestine, 3 (1994), 337-39. [On the private library of Arpe (1682-1740).]

Munck, Thomas. "Literacy, Educational Reform and the Use of Print in Eighteenth-Century Denmark." European History Quarterly, 34 (2004), 275-303.

Munford, W. A. (comp.). Who Was Who in British Librarianship 1800-1985: A Dictionary of Dates with Notes. London: Library Association. 1987. Pp. xi + 91; bibliography [91]. [Rev by Donald G. Davis, Jr., in Libraries and Culture, 24 (1989), 113-14.]

Murata, M. "Dr. Burney Bought a Music Book." Journal of Musicology, 17 (1999), 76-111.

Muratore, Nicoletta (ed.). Da Palazzo Massimo all'Angelica: Manoscritti e libri a stampa di un'antica famiglia romana. Rome: Fratelli Palombi, 1997. Pp. 286; illus. [A catalogue of 171 manuscripts and 428 printed books (many on religious organizations) among those of the Massimo family's library that when sold in 1884 were acquired by the Biblioteca Angelica.]

Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 242; illus. [Rev. by Leslie Howsam in Notes and Queries, n.s. 57 (2010), 448-49; by Alan R. Young in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 103 (2009), 112-14.]

Murphy, James H. (ed.). The Oxford History of the Irish Book. Volume 4: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xx + 732. [The first two sections concern printing and publishing; the third has an essay on “Pamphlets” by Charles Benson and Siobhan Fitzpatrick (139-43) and another on “Periodicals” by Elizabeth Tilley (144-70). The fourth section, “Book Distribution and Reading,” has essays on peddlers, almanacs, women readers, popular reading and the like, and a fifth section is devoted to libraries. Later sections, as on religious publishing, literary careers, and “Disseminating Science” have less in them related to the long eighteenth century. Rev. (briefly) by William Baker in Year’s Work in English Studies, 92 (2013), 1033-34.]

Murphy, Michael. “The Subscription List of the First Edition of The Seasons (1730): The Scottish Contribution.” Bulletin de la Société d’études Anglo-Américaines des XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles, 39 (1994), 207-14.

Murphy, Olivia. Jane Austen the Reader: The Artist as Critic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 234. [The main emphasis is not on Austen’s reading practices. Rev. by Melissa Sodeman in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 27, no. 2 (Winter 2014-15), 328-31.]

Murphy, Olivia. “Rethinking Influence by Reading with Austen.” Women’s Writing, 20, no. 1 (2013), 100-14. [On the impact of literary tradition on Austen as judged by way her characters like Emma read.]

Murphy, Sharon. “Imperial Reading? The East India Company’s Lending Libraries for Soldiers, c. 1819-1834.” Book History, 12 (2009), 74-99.

Murray, Kathleen Rochefort. "Saint Anne as Symbol of Literacy in Quebec Culture." Quebec Studies, 30 (2000), 70-78.

Murray, Stuart A. P. The Library: An Illustrated History. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009. Pp. 310; illustrations. [Rev. (favorable) by Robert S. Martin in Libraries and the Cultural Record, 45 (2010), 497-99.]

Myers, Mitzi. “Domesticating Minerva: Bathsua Makin’s ‘Curious’ Argument for Women’s Education.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 14 (1985), 173-92.

Myers, Mitzi. "Sociologizing Juvenile Ephemera: Periodical Contradictions, Popular Literacy, Transhistorical Readers." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 17, no. 1 (Spring 1992), 41-45.

Myers, Robin. "Dr. Andrew Coltée Ducarel, Lambeth Librarian, Civilian, and Keeper of the Public Records." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999), 199-222; chronology; illustration. [The Presidential Address of 21 April 1998 to the Bibliographical Society in London; on DuCarel (1713-1785).]

Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Antiquaries, Book Collectors, and the Circles of Learning. Winchester, U. K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 166; illus.; index. [Includes an introduction by the editors (vii-x) and three essays for our period: Mirjam M. Foot's "Scholar-Collectors and Their Bindings" on Restoration collectors Samuel Pepys and Edward Lord Harley (as well as earlier figures as Sir Robert Bruce Cotton); Robin Myers's "Dr. Andrew Coltée Ducarel (1713-1785): Pioneer of Anglo-Norman Studies"; and Bernard Nurse's "The Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London: Acquiring Antiquaries' Books over Three Centuries. Rev. by Susan M. Allen in Library Quarterly, 68 (1998), 489-90; (with another book) by Jeremy Griffiths in Library, 6th ser., 20 (1998), 68-69.]

Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Bibliophily. (Publishing History Occasional Series, 2.) Alexandria, VA, and Cambridge: Chadwick-Healey, 1986. Pp. x + 172. [Includes Mirjam Foot’s “Bookbinding Patronage in England” (1-21), and Katherine Swift’s “Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana: The Making of an Eighteenth-Century Library” (63-89).]

Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Journeys through the Market: Travel, Travelers, and the Book Trade. (Publishing Pathways.) New Castles, DE: Oak Knoll; Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. Pp. xiii + 152; illus. [Rev. by T. H. Howard-Hill in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 94 (2000), 460-61; by Neil Radford in Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries, 25 (2000), 104-07. [Essays involve on the relations of travel and exploration to the publishing business: Myers and Harris's introduction; Anthony Payne on Richard Hakluyt's travel books; Harris's "Shipwrecks in Print: Representations of Maritime Disaster in the Late Seventeenth Century"; Jeremy Black's "The Grand Tour"; Giles Barber's "The English Language Guide Book to Europe up to 1870"; Charles Newton's "Illustrated Books of the Middle East, 1800-1850"; and Bill Bell's "Bound for Australia: Shipboard Reading in the Nineteenth Century"; and Andrew Tatham's "The Information Resources of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers."]

Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Pioneers in Bibliography. Winchester, Hampshire, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies (distributed through New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll), 1988. Pp. 117. [Rev. by David Hunter in Libraries and Culture, 25 (1990), 609-10.]

Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation, and Dispersal of the Private Library (1620-1920). Winchester, Hampshire, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies (distributed through New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll), 1991. Pp. xii + 164; illustrations. [Eight papers from the twelfth annual conference on book trade history at Birkbeck College. Those with special focus on the eighteenth century are Frank Herrmann's "The Emergence of the Book Auctioneer as a Professional" (pp. 1-14), on early practitioners like Thomas Ballard (active 1706-1734); Esther Potter's "To Paul's Churchyard to Treat with a Bookbinder" (pp. 25-41), on bookbinding options for book owners; Brian North Lee's "Gentlemen and their Book-Plates" (pp. 42-76; illustrations); David Stoker's "The Ill-Gotten Library of 'Honest Tom' Martin" (pp. 91-111), which the Norfolk lawyer built up in the 1750s and sold off in the 1760s; and Robin Myers' "William Herbert [1718-1795]: His Library and His Friends" (pp. 133-158), discussing such topics as the scope of Herbert's library, his auction purchases, his bookplates, annotations, arrangement, and dispersal, concluding with a good bibliography of printed and manuscript sources on Herbert (pp. 156-58). Rev. (in a review essay) by Hugh Amory in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Ameica, 85 (1991), 423-31; by Alan Gribben in Libraries and Culture, 28 (1993), 105-06; in Library Association Record, 94 (1992), 412.]

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (eds.). Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade. (Publishing Pathways.) London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. Pp. 180; index. [The seven conference papers include Astrid Balsem’s “Books from the Library of Andreas Dudith (1535-89) in the Library of Isaac Vossius (1618-89); Peter Beal’s “Lost: The Destruction, Dispersal, and Rediscovery of Manuscripts” (1-16); Pierre Delsaerdt’s “Bibliophily and Public-Private Partnership: The Library of Gustaue van Haure (1817-92) and its Afterlife in Antwerp Libraries” (133-52), Angela Nuovo’s “The Creation and Dispersal of the Library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli” (39-68); David Pearson’s “What Can We Learn by Tracking Multiple Copies of Books?”; and Jos van Heel’s “From Venice and Naples to Paris, The Hague, London, Oxford, Berlin . . .: The Odyssey of the Manuscript Collection of Gerard and Johan Meerman” (87-112). Rev. by Alvin Bregman in SHARP News, 17, no. 3 (Summer 2008), 10; by Kenneth E. Carpenter Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 103 (2009), 259-61; by Daniel Finkelstein in TLS (28 March 2008), 32-33; by Patti Harper in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 47, no. 1 (Spring 2009); by Patrick Spedding in Script & Print, 32 (2008), 112-15.]

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (eds.). Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. (Publishing Pathways.) Folkestone, Kent, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2000. Pp. xiii + 192; 8 illus. [Eight papers from the 21st annual Conference on the History of the Book Trade held at Birkbeck College, 4-5 December 1999; including Conor Fahy's "Collecting an Aldine: Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano (1528) through the Centuries"; K. A. Manley's "Booksellers, Peruke-Makers, and Rabbit-Merchants: The Growth of Circulating Libraries in the Eighteenth Century" (29-50); and Esther Potter's "Bookbinding for Libraries," an account of relations between bookbinders and libraries since the late Middle Ages. Rev. by Aicha Ennaciri in Libraries and Culture, 38 (2003), 78-79; by T. H. Howard-Hill in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 95 (2001), 544-45; by Plummer Alston Jones, Jr., in College and Research Libraries, 62 (2001), 488-89; by Lynne McKechnie in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 40, no. 2 (Fall 2002), 123-25; by Peter Vodosek in Bibliothek, 26 (2002), 309-11.]

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (eds.). Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading. (Publishing Pathways.) London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 231; 40 illus. [Nine essays on reader as consumer, collector, and perceiver, six of which are relevant to our period: Steven N. Zwicker's "'What every literature man once knew': Tracing Readers in Early Modern England"; Lucy Peltz's "Facing the Text: The Amateur and Commercial Histories of Extra-Illustration, c. 1770-1840"; H. J. Jackson's "'Marginal Frivolities': Readers' Notes as Evidence for the History of Reading"; Stephen Colclough's "'A Grey Goose Quill and an Album': The Manuscript Book and Text Transmission, 1800-1850"; Mary Hammond's "The Reading Experience Database 1450-1914"; and Katie Sambrook's "Appendix: Books and their Owners at King's College London." Rev. (with another book) by John Hinks in Quadrat, no. 20 (Summer 2007), 36-37; by Tom Lockwood in Library, 7th series, 7 (2006), 337-39; by David McKitterick in TLS (March 17, 2006), 28; by David Pearson in Library History, 22, no. 2 (July 2006), 158-59; by Caroline Sumpter in SHARP News, 17, no. 1 (Winter 2008), 12.]

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (eds.). Under the Hammer: Book Auctions since the Seventeenth Century. London: British Library; New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001. Pp. xiv + 242; illus. [Papers from a conference Nov. 2000, including Michael Harris's "Newspaper Advertising for Book Auctions before 1700" (1-14); Giles Mandelbrote's "The Organization of Book Auctions in Late Seventeenth-Century London" (15-50); T. A. Birrell's "Books and Buyers in Seventeenth-Century English Auction Sales" (51-64); Otto S. Lankhorst's "Dutch Book Auctions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (65-88); Nigel Ramsay's "English Book Collectors and the Salerooms in the Eighteenth Century" (89-110); Arnold Hunt’s “The Sale of Richard Heber’s Library” (143-71); and an appendix, "Book Auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's" (231-36). Rev. by Stephen Colclough in Library History, 19 (2003), 67-68; by Pierre Delsaerdt in Bulletin du bibliophile (2005), 385-89; by John Feather in Journal of the Printing History Society, n.s. 6 (2003), 54-56; by Richard Landon in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 41, no. 1 (Spring 2003), 116-18; Maureen E. Mulvihill in SHARP News, 12, no. 1 (Winter 2003), 11-12.; by B. J. McMullin in Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 26 (2002), 237-40; by Julian Roberts in Library, 7th series, 3 (2003), 429-30.]

Myers, Terry L. “Benjamin Franklin, the College of William and Mary, and the Williamsburg Bray School.” Anglican & Episcopal History, 79 (2010), 368-93.

Naiditch, P. G. The Library of Richard Porson. S.l. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris [by the author], 2011. Pp. cxlvii + 441; catalogue; illustrations. [Porson (1759-1808) was a classics scholar, who also designed a Greek typefont. Most of his library was sold at auction in 1809. Naiditch reconstructs his library with a catalogue of 1935 items, giving their titles, early and late owners, and current location. The catalogue is preceded by a 120-page introductory section about Porson’s library, the sources of his books, his annotation practices. Rev. (favorably) by S. J. V. Malloch in Library, 7th series, 14 (2013), 476-78; (favorably) by David McKitterick in Book Collector, 61 (2012), 314-16.]

Narbutiené, Daiva. “Ksiazki ze znakami wlasnosciowymi Radziwillów w Bibliotece Litewskiej Akademii Nauk im Wróblewskich.” Rocznik Biblioteki Narodowej, 41 (2011), 81-88.

Naudé, Gabriel. Istruzioni per allestire una biblioteca. Introduction and translation by Alfredo Serrai; edited by Massimo Gatta. Macerata: Bibliohaus, 2012. Pp. 184 + 166 + 96; facsimiles. [A new Italian translation of Naudé’s Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (1627), along with facsimiles of the original French edition and of John Evelyn’s English translation.]

Navarro Bonilla, Diego. "Escribir y dibujar en libros y registros: Impulsos y prácticas privadas (siglos XIV-XVIII)." Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 76 (2001), 261-68.

Navest, Karlijn. “Ash’s Grammatical Institutes and ‘Mrs Teachwell’s Library for Her Young Ladies.” Pp. 59-82 in Perspectives on Prescription. (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication.) Edited by Joan C. Beal, G. Nocera, and M. Sturiale. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 269.

Navest, Karlijn K. “Reading Lessons for ‘Baby Grammarians’: Lady Ellenor Fenn and the Teaching of English Grammar.” In Acts of Reading: Teachers, Text, and Childhood. Edited by Morag Styles and Evelyn Arizpe. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham, 2009.

Navickiene, Ausra, Ilkka Mäkinen, Magnus Torstensson, Martin Dyrbye, and Tiiu Reimo (eds.). Good Book, Good Library: Studies in the Book, Libraries, and Reading for the Network HIBOLIRE and its Friends. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2013. Pp. 315; illustrations. [Ten essays from the society HIBOLIRE: Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries, and Reading, with an introduction by co-editor Magnus Torstensson. They include Ilkka Mäkinen’s “Leselust, Goût de la Lecture, Love of Reading: Patterns in the Discourse on Reading in Europe from the 17th until the 19th Century” (261-85). Rev. by Laura Skouvig in Library & Information History, 30 (2014), 133-34.]

Neagu, Cristina. “Time Capsule under Restoration: The Allestree Library.” Christ Church Library Newsletter, 7, no. 2 (Hilary Term, 2011), 15-17; illustration.

Negrin Fajardo, Olegario. “Maestros y educadores españoles en el siglo XVIII.” Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, 15 (2005), 117-57.

Negroni, Barbara de. Lectures interdites: Le travail des censeurs au XVIIIème siècle, 1723-1774. Paris: Albin Michel, 1995. Pp. 377; bibliography [351-74]; illus.; index.

Neill, Natalie. "'The trash with which the press now groans': Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Best Sellers of the 1790s." Eighteenth-Century Novel, 4 (2004), 163-92. [On print culture and reading.]

Nelles, Paul. "L'érudition ecclésiastique et les bibliothèques de Paris au XVIIe siècle: Étude de catalogage et de classification." Revue française d'histoire du livre, nos. 104-05 (1999), 227-52.

Nelson, Alan H. “Manuscripts from the 1682 Sale of Richard Smith’s Library.” Pp. 300-16 in In the Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal. London: British Library, 2012.

Nelson, T. G. A. Children, Parents, and the Rise of the Novel. Newark: U. of Delaware Press, 1995. Pp. 252.

Nequirito, Mauro. 1809. Il Tirolo in armi contro l’ordine napoleonico: Materiali a stampa dal Fondo antico della Biblioteca civica “Bruno Emmert” di Arco. Trento: Provincia Autonoma, Soprintendenza per i beni librari archivistici e archeologic, 2009. Pp. 140. [Briefly noted by Edoardo Barbieri in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 18 (June 2010), 12.]

Nestola, Barbara. "The Diffusion of Italian Vocal Music Repertoires in France (1725-1732). Handel-Jahrbuch, 51 (2005).

Neuburg, Victor. "Chapbooks in America: Reconstructing the Popular Reading in Early America." Pp. 81-113 in Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Edited by Cathy Davidson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1989.

Neuhauser, Walter. "Der Thalbacher Übergabekatalog von 1783." Pp. 88-117 in Eberhard Tiefenthaler: Direktor der Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek von 1977 bis 1995: Gedenkschrift. Edited by Wilhelm Meusburger and Thomas Feuerstein. Graz, Austria: W. Neugebauer Verlag, 1996.

Neureiter, Manfred (ed.). Lexikon der Exlibriskünstler. Konstanz: M. Neureiter; Radolfzellen am Bodensee: Honsel, 1998. Pp. 292; index.

Neveu, Valérie. “Classer les livres selon le ‘Système figuré des connaissances humaines’: Émergence et déclin des systèmes bibliographiques d’inspiration baconienne (1752-1812).” Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie, 48 (2013), 223-24.

New, Melvyn, and W. B. Gerard (eds.). The Miscellaneous Writings [of Laurence Sterne] and Sterne’s Subscribers, an Identification List. (The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, 9.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), pp. xxix + 592; index. [Includes an unusually indepth study of subscribers to a specific work. Rev. byW. B. Carnochan in Scriblerian, 47, no. 2-48, no. 1 (2015), 73-75; by Marcus Walsh in The Shandean, 25 (2014), 161-63 (e-journal).]

New York Society Library (comp.). Circulation Records 1789-1792. Open-access on-line database posted at www.nysoclib.org/collection/ledger/circulation-records-1789-1792/people.

Newcomb, Lori Humphrey. Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England. New York: Columbia U. Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 332; illus.; index

Newlyn, Lucy. Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception. New York: Oxford U. Press, 2000. Pp. xix + 397; index. [Rev. by Michael O'Neill in Review of English Studies, 52 (2001), 595-97.]

Newman, Andrew. “Captive on the Literacy Frontier: Mary Rowlandson, James Smith, and Charles Johnston.” Early American Literature, 38, no. 1 (2003), 31-65.

Ni Mhunghaile, Lesa. “An Eighteenth-Century Gaelic Scribe’s Private Library: Muiris O Gormáin’s Books.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C, 110 (2010), 239-76.

Nicciolini, Monica. "Circolazione di un melodramma e rivolgimenti politici (1796-1799): La Morte di Cleopatra." Studi Musicali, 23 (1994), 329-65.

Nickel, Heinrich L. (ed.). 450 Jahre Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale: Kostbarkeiten und Raritäten einer alten Büchersammlung. Halle an der Saale: Janos Stekovics, 2002. Pp. 280; bibliographies; catalogue; chronologies; illus. (many in color).

Nickson, M. A. E. "Hans Sloane, Book Collector and Cataloguer, 1682-1698," British Library Journal, 14 (1988), 52-89. [See also the preceding article in the issue, Peter Murray Jones's "A Preliminary Check-List of Sir Hans Sloane's Catalogues." BLJ, 14 (1988), 38-51.]

Niedziela, Maurycy Lucjan. "Charakterystyka biblioteki klasztoru dominikanów w Borku Starym w XVII i XVIII wieku." Slaski kwartalnik historyczny (1996), 196-203.

Nilsson Nylander, Eva. The Mild Boredom of Order: A Study in the History of the Manuscript Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. (Bokhistoriska skrifter.) Lund: Department of Cultural Studies, Lund University, 2011. Pp. 328; bibliography. [Revised dissertation. Rev. by Outi Merisalo in Lychnos, 2012 (2012).]

Nipps, Karen. William Mackenzie: America's First Rare Book Collector [catalogue of exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1994, to March 4, 1995]. Philadelphia, PA: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1994. Pp. 13.

Nissenbaum, Stephen W. "Christmas in Early New England, 1620-1820: Puritanism, Popular Culture, and the Printed Word." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 106, no. 1 (1996), 79-164; facsimiles; illus.; music. [Separately issued by the Society with the same title and pagination in 1997. Treats the role almanacs, hymnals and children's literature had in the increasing importance placed on Christmas, over the opposition of some Puritans, during the eighteenth century.]

Noble, Yvonne. “Review Essay: Discovering and Cataloguing Franklin’s Books.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, 22, no. 2 (May 2008), 25-31.

Noblett, William. "The Ixworth Book Club." Factotum, no. 40 (Dec. 1995), 9-10. [Not recorded in Paul Kaufman's "English Book Clubs and their Role in Social History," Libri, 14, no. 1 (1964), 4-8. Ixworth, a small town seven miles northeast of Bury St. Edmunds, had a population c. 800 when banker James Oakes joined the club. Oakes' diary reveals the club met for four to five hours monthly on a Tuesday for dinner, at which as many as 18 members attended, though eleven was the average number (roughly half were clergy); Oakes' diary reveals nothing about the regulations involving reading.]

Noblett, William. “The Sale of James West’s Library in 1773.” Pp. 279-96 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, 2011. Pp. xviii + 382; illus.; index.

Noe, Alfred. Geschichte der Italienischen Literatur in Österreich. Vol. 1: Von den Anfängen bis 1797. Vienna: Böhlau, 2011. Pp. 774. . [Rev. by Daniel Syrovy in Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreich, 28 (2013), 344-45.]

Noordegraaf, Jan, and Frank Vonk (eds.). Five Hundred Years of Foreign Language Teaching in the Netherlands 1450-1950. Amsterdam: Stichting Neerlandistiek VU, 1993. Pp. xxvi + 136.

Nord, David Paul. Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 212; index. [Rev. by Erin A. Smith in American Periodicals, 16, no. 1 (2006), 115-17.]

Nord, David Paul. "Readership as Citizenship in Late-Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia." Pp. 19-44 in A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith. Philadelphia, PA: College of Physicians and Surgeons; Library Company of Philadelphia, 1997. Index.

Nord, David Paul. "A Republican Literature: Magazine Reading and Readers in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York." Pp. 114-39 in Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Ed. by Cathy N. Davidson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 307. [Reprinted from American Quarterly, 40 (1988); focused on readership of the New-York Magazine.]

North, Michael. “Material Delight and the Joy of Living”: Cultural Consumption in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany. Translated by Pamela Selwyn. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 273. [Rev. in a review essay (“What’s New in the New Economic Criticism”) by Matt Erlin in Goethe Yearbook, 18 (2011), 285-96.]

North, Michael J. (comp.), and Eric Holzenberg (ed.). Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions and Sales by Private Treaty 1643-1830 in the Library of the Grolier Club. Preface by Holzenberg; essay by Edmond L. Lincoln. New York: Grolier Club, 2004. Pp. 305; illus.; indices of consignors, of auctioneers, of booksellers & printers, etc., of provenance, and of subjects. [Rev. by Björn Biester in Aus dem Antiquariat (2005), 234-36; by David McKitterick in a review essay ("New Needs in Libraries") in Book Collector, 56 (2007), 11-30; (fav.) by Ian Jackson in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (2004), 641-45; by Michael Laird in Bulletin du bibliophile (2006), 407-09; (fav.) by David J. Shaw in Library, 7th series, 7 (2006), 208-09.]

Norton, David Fate, and Mary J. Norton. The David Hume Library. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society in Association with National Library of Scotland, 1996. Pp. 156; appendices [including one on "The Family of David Hume and Baron Hume" and a 1840 "Catalogue of Baron Hume's Library"]; illus. [including Hume's bookplates].

Nouis, Lucien. De l’infini des bibliothèques au livre unique: L’archive épurée au XVIII^e siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. Pp. 298. [Rev. by Nathalie Ferrand in French Studies, 69 (2015), 396-97.]

Nowak, Maria J. "The History of the Jagiellonian Library." Libraries and Culture, 32 (1997), 94-106. [Library of Cracow Academy, founded 1364.]

Nuttall, G. F. "Welsh Books at Bristol Baptist College (1795)." Transactions of the Honourable Society of the Cymmrodorion / Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion, n.s. 9 (2003), 162-68.

Ó Ciosáin, Niall. Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Pp. ix + 249; illus.; index; maps. [Rev (with another book) by Robert L. Dawson in Libraries and Culture, 35 (2000), 479-80; by John Logan in Long Room, no. 43 (1998), 49-51; (with other books) by Robert Mahony in Eighteenth-Century Life, 23, no. 1 (Feb. 1999), 98-112; by W. J. McCormack in Irish Historical Studies, 32, no. 127 (2000), 283-86. A 2nd ed. was printed in paperback by the Lilliput Press, 2010.]

Ó Hógartaigh, Ciaran, and Margaret O Hógartaigh. “Hedge Schools, Books, and Business Education.” In Libraries, Poets, and Scholars: A Festschrift for Dónell O Luanaigh. Edited by Felix M. Larkin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Pp. 367.

Ó Muraíle, Nollaig. The Celebrated Antiquary Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c. 1600-1671): His Lineage, Life, and Learning. (Maynooth Monographs.) Maynooth: An Sagart, 1996. Pp. xii + 427.

Oates, J. C. T. Cambridge University Library: A History. Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1986. Pp. xviii + 510; facs.; indices. [Rev. by J. P. Danton in Library Quarterly, 57 (1987), 318-19; by P. A. Hoare in Library History, 7 (1987), 163-67; by Anthony Hobson in TLS (7 Nov. 1986), 1244; by Eric W. Nye in ECCB, n.s. 12 (for 1986 [1992]), 21-22.]

Oberhausen, Michael, and Riccardo Pozzo (eds.). Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universität Königsberg (1720-1804). (Forschungen und Materialien zur Universitätsgeschichte, I.1-2.) With introduction. 2 vols. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1999. Pp. lxvii + 778; facsimiles; index. [Rev. by U. J. Schneider in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 25 (2001), 294-96.]

Obhof, Ute. "Zur Geschichte der Bibliothek des ehemaligen Klosters Hirschhorn am Neckar." Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, 27 (1994), 56-148; 4 of plates.

O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2009. Pp. 318; bibliography; index. [Treats Macaulay, Wollstonecraft, etc. Rev. by Betty A. Schellenberg in Huntington Library Quarterly, 73 (2010), 287-94.]

Oda, Tomoya. "Wordsworth's Reading of Thomas West's Antiquities of Furness in 1808." Notes and Queries, n.s. 51 (2004), 147-48.

O’Donnell, Katherine. “Edmund Burke, Cúrteanna Eígse, and Literary Clubs.” 1650-1850, 15 (2008), 63-74.

O’Donnell, Mary Ann. “Private Jottings, Public Utterances: Aphra Behn’s Writings and Her Commonplace Book.” Pp. 285-309 of Aphra Behn Studies. Edited by Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 334.

Oehme, Johannes (ed.). Das kind im 18. Jahrhundert: Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte des Kindes. (Documenta Paediatrica, 16.) Lübeck: Hansisches Verlagskontor H. Scheffler, 1988. Pp. 132; illus. [Rev. (fav.; in English) in Pedagogica Historica, 26 (1990), 273-76; contributions treat Enlightenment ideas on moral education and the institutionalization of schooling.]

Olbrich, Bill. "Passing the Torch: Haynes McMullen's American Library History Database and American Libraries before 1876." Libraries and Culture, 37 (2002), 132-37.

“The Old Library of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.” Long Room, 42 (1997), 13-14.

Oldfield, J[ohn]. R. "An Eighteenth-Century Hampshire Book Club." The Library, 6th ser., 11 (1989), 52-57.

Oldfield, John [R]. Printers, Booksellers, and Libraries in Hampshire, 1750-1800. (Hampshire Papers, 3.) Winchester, U. K.: Hampshire County Council, 1993. Pp. 28; illus.; index.

Oliver, Bette W. "The Bibliothèque nationale from 1792 to 1794: Becoming a National Institution during the French Revolution." Libraries and the Cultural Record, 42 (2007), 42 (2007), 48-56.

Oliver, Bette W. From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. ix + 110; illus.; index. [Rev. by Mary Niles Maack in Libraries & the Culture Record, 42 (2007), 460-61; by Martine Poulain in Library Quarterly, 78 (2008), 496-97.]

Oliver, Bette W. "Safeguarding the Nation's Past: Chamfort's Brief Career at the Bibliothèque Nationale." Libraries and Culture, 34 (1999), 373-79.

Oliver, Bette W., and Hermina G. B. Anghelscu. "The History of Libraries in France: Histoire des bibliothèques françaises." Libraries and Culture, 30, 4 (1995), 409-27. [Largely a review article of Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, 4 vols. (1989-1992), edited by Pascal Fouché (1992).]

Oliviero, Isabelle L'Invention de la collection: De la diffusion de la littérature et des savoirs à la formation du citoyen au XIX siècle. (In Octavo.) Paris: Editions de l'IMEX; Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1999. Pp. 334. [Rev. by Élisabeth Parinet in Bulletin du bibliophile (2002), 411-12; by James Allen Smith in Journal of Modern History, 74 (2002), 173-74; (fav.) by Hannah Thompson in SHARP News, 10.4 (2001), 12.]

Olsen, Mark, and Louis-Georges Harvey. "Reading in Revolutionary Times: Book Borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782." Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 4, no. 3 (1993), 57-72; facsimiles; tables.

Olsen, Thomas G. (ed.). The Commonplace Book of Sir John Stragways (1645-1666). (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 275.) Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society, with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. Pp. xvi + 326.

Olson, Michael P. The Odyssey of a German National Library: A Short History of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Deutsche Bücherei, and the Deutsche Bibliothek. (Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, 36.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. 122; index.

O’Malley, Andrew. “Poaching on Crusoe’s Island: Popular Reading and Chapbook Editions of Robinson Crusoe.” Eighteenth-Century Life, 35, no. 2 (Spring 2011), 18-38. [O’Malley focuses on the chapbooks as appropriations of “elite” texts for a “plebian” readership and how in the process of reduction to a short text the ideology and meanings of the original are altered.]

O'Neill, Jean. "Peter Collinson's Copies of Philip Miller's Dictionary in the National Library of Wales." Archives of Natural History, 20 (1993), 373-80; 1 of portrait. [On the copy of the sixth edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1752) with manuscript annotations by Peter Collinson (1694-1768).]

Opdebeeck, Bart. “De Bibliotheek van de Brusselse Jezuïtencollege tijdens het Ancien Régime.” Pp. 49-90 in Quatre siècles de présence jésuite à Bruxelles / Vier eeuwen jezuïenten te Brussel. Edited by Alain Deneef and Xavier Rousseaux. Brussels: Prosopon, 2012. Pp. 711.

Oppeker, Walpurga. “Bucheignerzeichen des Grafen Joachim von Windhag.” Biblos, 60, no. 1 [A special issue with the theme “Wie kommt die Ordnung in die Bibliothek? Wissen verwalten.] (2011), 137-50.

Oram, Richard W., and Joseph Nicolson (eds.). Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers’ Libraries. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Pp. 218. [With some practical advise and a lengthy “location guide to writers’ libraries.” Rev. (mixed) by David Pearson in Library, 7th ser., 16 (2015), 102-03.]

Orrje, Jacob. “Reading Art, Reading Nature: How Microscopic Literature formed Seventeenth-Century Readers.” Lychnos (2009), 91-116.

Osborough, W. N. “6 Anne, Chapter 19: ‘Setting and Preserving a Publick Library for ever.’” Pp. 39-61in Marsh’s Library—A Mirror on the World: Love, Learning, and Libraries, 1650-1750. Edited by Muriel McCarthy and Ann Simmons. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. Pp. 311; illus.; maps.

Osti, Giuseppe. “Biblioteche italiane nella Beschreibung verschiedenwer Bibliotheken in Europa di Adalbert Blumenschein (1720-1781).” Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, series 8, 9, [fasc. I. a. 259] (2009), 175-230.

Ostrander, Gilman M. Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1999. Pp. xvi + 379. [Focuses on literary-intellectual communities centered in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and another dispersed in the south; the characters and inter-relations of these groups; treating literary clubs, academies, universities, and their periodical publications and other effects. Rev. (fav.) Michelle Bornham in American Literature, 73 (2001), 186-87.]

Ostrowski, Carl. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861. (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.) Amherst, MA: U. of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. x + 261; index; tables. [Rev. (fav.) by James R. Kelly in PBSA, 99 (2005), 339-40, noting it is based on the author's dissertation, "The Library of Congress and the Transformation of Literary Culture in America, 1782-1861"; by Christine Pawley in SHARP News, 13, no. 4 (Autumn 2004), 8.]

Otness, Harold M. "A Room Full of Books: The Life and Slow Death of the American Residential Library." Libraries and Culture, 23 (1988), 111-34. [From the early 1800s on.]

O’Toole, James. “A New Book from Swift’s Library.” Swift Studies, 9 (1994), 113-17; facsimile of title-page signed by Swift. [Hugo de Groot’s De iure belli ac pacis libri tres (Amsterdam, 1670).]

Otten, Jolande, and Henk Reitsma. "De omwenteling te Amsterdam en de leesgezelschappen 't Schootsvel." Amstelodamum: Maandblad voor de Kennis van Amsterdam, 82 (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 10-20. [On reading societies.]

Oury, G.-M. "La vie intellectuelle dans la Congrégation de Saint-Maur: les bibliothèques au XVIIe siècles. Où entreposer les livres?" Revue française d'histoire du livre, nos. 72-73 (1991), 163-200.

Ovenden, Richard. "The Early Use of Sale Catalogues." Factotum, no. 26 (July 1988), 10-14. [Includes a transcription of a list of catalogues compiled between 1720 and 1745 by John Sharp and Thomas Sharp, sons of the Archbishop of York, reflecting their zeal for collecting; annotations follow the transcription.]

Overton, Bill. "The Subscription List for Jean Adam's Miscellany Poems (1734)." Notes and Queries, n.s. 51 (2004), 392-95.

Owens, Thomas. “Coleridge’s Lost Marginalia to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (November 1803-May 1809).” Book Collector, 62 (2013), 241-53.

Owens, Thomas. “Coleridge’s Marginal Annotations to Robert Percival’s An Account of the Island of Ceylon . . . (1803).” Notes and Queries, n.s. 59 (2012), 373-75.

Owens, Thomas. “Coleridge’s Reading of Two Translations of Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632).” Notes and Queries, 60 (2013), 229-32.

Owens, W. R. “Sequential Bible Reading in Early Modern England.” Bunyan Studies, 15 (2011), 64-74.

Paas, John Roger (ed.). Der Franken Rom: Nürnbergs Blütezeit in der zweiten Hälfte des 17.Jahrhunderts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995. Pp. 451; illus.; index. [Intellectual life in Nurenberg, 1650-1750.]

Paasch, Kathrin. “’. . . und prangt mit den ausgesuchtesten Werken’: Die Bibliothek der Erfurter Schottenbenediktiner im 18. Jahrhundert.” Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, 33, nos. 1-2 (2008).

Paciaudi, Paolo Maria [1710-1785]. Parma città d’Europa: La memorie del padre Paolo Maria Paciaudi sulla Regia Biblioteca Parmense. Edited by Andrea de Pasquale. (Caratteri, 1.) Parma: Museo Bodoniano, 2008. Pp. 205; illustrations. [Three texts by Paciaudi, founder of the Palatine Library in Parma.]

Paintin, Elaine M. The King's Library. London: British Library, 1989. Pp. 32; illus.

Paisey, David. "Libraries in Bologna in the Late 1770s as Described by Adalbert Blumenschein." L'Archiginnasio: Bollettino della Biblioteca comunale di Bologna, 97 (2002 [December 2003]).

Paisey, David. "Printed Books in English and Dutch in Early Printed Catalogues of German University Libraries." Pp. 127-48 in Across the narrow Seas: Studies in the History and Bibliography of Britain and the Low Countries, presented to Anna E. C. Simoni. Ed. by Susan Roach. Foreword by Mirjam Foot. Bibliography by Dennis Rhodes. London: British Library, 1991. Pp. xiv + 223.

Paisey, David. "The Unpublished 'Description of Various Libraries in Europe' by Adalbert Blumenschein (1720-1781)." La Bibliofilía, 103 (2001), 165-80.

Pal, Carol. Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century. (Ideas in Context, 99.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 316. [On the participation within the Republic of Letters as through correspondence, patronage, and publishing by women, 1630-1680, focused on seven women, including Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, Maria de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Katharine Jones, and Bathsua Makin. Rev. by Joanna Barker in The Seventeenth Century, 28 (2013), 346-47; by K. Green in American Historical Review, 119 (2014), 970-71; by Kim McLean-Fiander in English Historical Review, 130 (2015), 996-97; by Sarah Gwyneth Ross in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 44 (2013), 258-59.]

Palladini, Fiammetta (ed.). La Biblioteca di Samuel Pufendorf: Catalogo dell'asta di Berlin del settembre 1697. (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens, 32.) With notes and introduction by Palladini. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz for the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 1999. Pp. lxxiv + 660; bibliography; concordance; facsimiles; indices. [In Italian with a German foreword. After providing a comprehensive survey of the library, Palladini provides an alphabetical catalogue identifying the 1911 books at the auction sale of the library of Pufendorf, a German jurist. A facsimile of the original auction catalogue, published in Berolini, 1697, follows (557-660). Rev. (briefly, favorably) by John L. Flood in Library, 7th ser., 1 (2000), 216.]

Palmer, Susan. “Building a Library: Evidence from Sir John Sloane’s Archive.” Pp. 79-100 in Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts, 1500-2000. (Publishing Pathways.) Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 194; illustrations (some in color); index.

Palumbo, David M. “Mary Wollstonecraft, Jonathan Swift, and the Passions of Reading.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 51 (2011), 625-44.

Palumbo, Margherita. "La biblioteca lessicografica di Leibniz." Pp. 419-56 in Bibliothecae selectae da Cusano a Leopardi. Edited by Eugenio Canone. Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1993.

Palumbo, Margherita. “La Casantense, una biblioteca al servizio della ‘sana dottrina.’” Pp. 455-79 of A dieci anni dell’apertura dell’Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede: Storia e archivi dell’Inquisizione. (Atti dei convegni lincei, 260.) Rome: Accademia dei Lincei, 2011. Pp. 715.

Palumbo, Margherita. Leibniz e i geographica: Libri geografici e apodemici nella bibliotheca privata Leibniziana. (Il Bibliothecario, 13.) Rome: Bulzoni, 1996. Pp. 358.

Palumbo, Margherita. Leibniz e la Res Bibliothecaria: Bibliographie, Historiae literariae e cataloghi nella biblioteca privata Leibniziana. (Il Bibliotecario Nova Serie, Manuali, 8). Rome: Bulzoni, 1993. Pp. 215.

Palumbo, Margherita. “Das ‘schöne supplementum’: Die Privatbibliothekar von Leibniz.” Studia Leibnitiana, 38-39, no. 1 (2006/2007), 19-41.

Panetta, Marina. La "Libraria" di Mattia Casanate. (Il Bibliotecario, n.s. 2.) Rome: Bulzoni, 1988. Pp. 248; bibliography [243-46]. [Rev. by Giorgio Montecchi in La Bibliofilia, 92 (1990), 228-29.]

Panzanelli Fratoni, Maria Alessandra. “Libri, biblioteche e cultura degli ordini regolari nell’Italia moderna attraverso la documentazione della Congregazione dell’ Indice.” Il Bibliotecario, 3, nos. 1-2 (2008), 143-56.

Panzanelli Fratoni, Maria Alessandra. "Prolegomeni per una 'storia e cultura delle biblioteche' in Umbria." Rara volumina, 11, nos. 1-2 (2004), 25-55.

Paoli, Marco. "Riflessioni sull'editoria archeologica del Settecento: La specializzazione degli eruditi e la crescita del pubblico internazionale." Rara Volumina, 1 (2003 [2004]), 25-41.

Parada, Alejandro E. De la biblioteca particular a la biblioteca pública: Libros, lectores y pensamiento bibliotecario en los origenes de la Biblioteca Pública de Buenas Aires, 1779-1812. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas, 2002. Pp. 200. Rev. (fav.) by Adán Benavides in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41, no. 3 (Summer 2006), 403-04. [On Don Facundo de Prieto y Pulido's private library (1779-1783), using a document recording his loaning of books to over 40 people; the library was donated to a convent with the hope that it would become a public resource. Parada also examines the rules of the first public library, opened in 1812.]

Parisi, Susan (eds.), and John Karr, Caterina Pampaloni, and Robert Lamar Weaver (comps. The Music Library of a Noble Florentine Family: A Catalogue Raisonné of Manuscripts and Prints of the 1720s to the 1850s Collected by the Ricasoli Family now Housed in the University of Louisville Music Library. With an essays on the History of the Collection and on Music in the Ricasoli Chapels and Households by Robert Lamar Weaver. Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 482. [The collection is heralded as an unusually well preserved aristocratic family collection, begun in the 1700s. This project began nearly 25 years earlier when the collection was acquired by the University. The catalogue is divided between sacred music, secular music, and method, theory, & history books. Rev. by Christine Jeanneret in Notes, 69, no. 4 (June 2013), 732-34; (favorably) by John A. Rice in Music & Letters, 94 (2013), 519-20.]

Parker, Susan. “Building a Library: Evidence from Sir John Soane’s Archive.” Pp. 79-100 (with 8 illustrations) of Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts, 1500-2000. (Publishing Pathways.) Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (eds.). London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 194; illustrations (some in color); index. [There are two appendices: lists of booksellers and bookbinders patronized by Soane.]

Parr, L. J. "Ye Olde Luddenden Library, c. 1776-1917." Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, n.s. 11 (2003), 82-97.

Parry, Graham. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth-Century. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 382; illus.; index. [Covers antiquarianism from 1603-1714.]

Parsons, Nicola. Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xi + 211. [Treats the what, how, and why of popular reading during the period, considering also the role of gossip in works by Jane Barker, Daniel Defoe, Delariviere Manley, and Sir Richard Steele, noting the way gossip breaks down the division of private and public spheres. Rev. (fav.) by Nicholas Seager in Digital Defoe, 4 (2012), 88-92.]

Pascual Martínez, Lope de. "Libros y libreros en Murcia según los protocolos del siglo XVII." Coloquio Internacional sobre el Libro Antiquo Español, 2 (1989), 163-75.

Passman [Pa ßmann], Dirk F. “Jonathan Swift as a Book-Collector with a Checklist of Swift Association Copies.” Swift Studies, 27 (2012), 7-68; bibliography of 113 presently located books that were once in Swift’s possession.

Passmann, Dirk F., and Heinz J. Vienken. The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: A Bio-Bibliographical Handbook. Part 1: Swift's Library in Four Volumes. 4 volumes. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2003. Vols. 1-3 (A-G, H-P, Q-Z) with continuous pagination: pp. xxi + 1995; bibliographies. Volume 4: pp. vi + 421; appendices with catalogues of the libraries of William Temple and Thomas Sheridan and facsimiles of three catalogues of Swift's library; bibliography of abbreviated references [1-184]; indices of Swift's Writings, Printers, Authors, and Subjects. [This detailed account of Swift's library, relying largely on lists drawn up in 1715, 1742-1744, and 1746 (the latter being the auction catalogue), all reproduced in Vol. 4. Much biographical and bibliographical information is offered for the authors and titles within the collection, including bibliographies of secondary sources placed in most entries. Inscription/marginalia information on located copies is provided. Rev. by Robin Alston in Library, 7th series, 6 (2005), 93-95; (with another book) by Christopher Fauske in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 19 (2004), 223-27; (fav.) by Robert L. Mack in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39 (2006), 268-73; (fav.) by James E. May in East-Central Intelligencer, n.s. 18, no. 3 (September 2004), 40-42; (fav.) by James McLaverty in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 100 (2006), 150-52; (fav. with reservations) by Frank Palmeri in Scriblerian, 38 (2006), 294-95; (fav.; with another book) by Claude Rawson in TLS (10 Sept. 2004), 3-4; by Claude Rawson in Book Collector, 56 (2007), 149-51; by David Womersley in Review of English Studies, 56 (2005), 148-49; (in a review essay) by Steven N. Zwicker in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 44 (2004), 669-70.]

Pasta, Renato. "Appunti sul consumo culturale: Pubblico e letture nel '700." ("Editoriale.") La Fabbrica del libro: Bollettino di storia dell'editoria in Italia, 2 (2004), 2-9.

Pasta, Renato. “Commerce with Books” Reading Practices and Book Diffusion at the Habsburg Court in Florence (1765-1790).” Pp. 82-98 of Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment: Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. (Penn State Studies in the History of the Book.) Edited with a Preface by Charles Walton. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2011. Pp. 264; index.

Pateman, John. "Library London--Now and Then." Library History, 21, no. 1 (March 2005), 3-8.

Patier Torres, Felicidad. La biblioteca de Tomás López: Sequida de la relación de los mapas impresos, cons sus cobres, . . . 1802. Madrid: El Museo Universal, 1992. Pp. 273; illus. [López was one of the age's principal map makers.]

Patterson, Melissa. “Nathan Bailey’s Dictionary: Signs of its Author, Readers, and Influence on Johnson.” Age of Johnson, 21 (2011), 93-122.

Paulus, Michael J., Jr. “Archibald Alexander and the Use of Books: Theological Education and Print Culture in the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic, 31 (2011), 639-69.

Pearson, David. Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond Their Texts. Revised 2nd edition. London: British Library (distributed in North America by New Castle: Oak Knoll Press), 2011. Pp. 208; 200+ illustrations (150 in color). [With modest changes from the 2008 first edition, including some new illustrations. A “revised 3rd edition” published by the British Library and Oak Knoll Press in 2012 is said to have a new foreword, updated reading list, and some new illustrations, yet it too has 208 pp. Reviews of the first two editions include: John Barnard in TLS (5 December 2008), 25-26; Mirjam M Foot in Library, 7^th series, 10 (2009), 332; Consuela Metzger in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (2009), 487-88; Jeffrey Mifflin in Printing History, n.s. 12 (July 2012); Michael Ryan in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 104 (2010), 124-26; Murray C. T. Simpson in Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 5 (2010), 113-14; and (favorably) Simran Thadani in Quadrat, no. 24 (Summer 2011), 27-30.]

Pearson, David. "Durham Cathedral Library, Cosin and Clarendon." Durham University Journal, 52 (1991), 91-92.

Pearson, David. "Elias Smith: Durham Cathedral Librarian, 1633-1676." Library History, 8, no. 3 (1989), 65-73.

Pearson, David. “English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century.” Bibsite. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 2012. PDFs. Open-access online resource. http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibsite-home/. [Revising again the original file posted at BibSite [Website of the Bibliographical Society of America] in 2005, and previously revised in 2006, 2007, 2010; and 2011. Recent revisions included the addition of links to images of inscriptions and bookplates in selected items]

Pearson, David. “The English Private Library in the Seventeenth Century.” Library, 7th series, 13 (2012), 379-99; appendix: “A Draft Format, and Specimen Entries, for a Directory of Seventeenth-Century English Book Owners”; illustrations. [Surveys what is known of private libraries between 1610 and 1715, such as their size, contents, arrangements and related questions about how book owners perceived and treated their books. Calls for the creation of a directory of individual private libraries with information on them.]

Pearson, David. “Patterns of Book Ownership in Late Seventeenth-Century England.” Library, 7^th series, 11 (2010), 139-167; appendix of books owned; 3 charts.

Pearson, D[avid]. R. S. Provenance Indexes for Early Printed Books and Manuscripts: A Guide to Present Resources. London, 1987; reproduced with corrections as Provenance Indexes for Early Printed Books and Manuscripts a Guide to the Present Resources. Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: D. Pearson, 1988. Pp. 42. [Rev. by M. R. Perkin in Library History, 8 (1988), 19-20.]

Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History. Rev. ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press (distributed outside the Western Hemisphere by London: British Library), 1998. Pp. 352. [New introduction to the original handbook on the study of book ownership.]

Pearson, David. "Unrecorded Books from Samuel Johnson's Library." Factotum, 32 (Sept. 1990), 13-14.

Pearson, Jacqueline. "'Books, My greatest Joy': Constructing the Female Reader in the Lady's Magazine." Women's Writing, 3 (1996), 3-15.

Pearson, Jacqueline. “Dreadful News from Wapping (and Elsewhere): Gender, Reading, and the Supernatural in Early Modern England.” Women’s Writing, 17 (2010), 147-65.

Pearson, Jacqueline. “Flinging the Book away: Books, Reading, and Gender on the Restoration Stage.” Pp. 33-50 in Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to Licensing Act. Edited by Catie Gill. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xii + 178; bibliography; chronology; index. [Analyzes and explains the depictions of women as readers and argues why heroines in the Restoration period were not often depicted reading.]

Pearson, Jacqueline. Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1999. Pp. x + 310. [For more on women's reading, see my bibliography on women writers and readers posted on C18-L. Rev. (fav.) by Mercy Cannon in ECCB, n.s. 25 (1999), 460-61.]

Peck, Linda Levy. "Uncovering the Arundel Library at the Royal Society: Changing Meanings of Science and the Fate of the Norfolk Donation." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 52 (1998), 3-24.

Pedraza Gracia, Manuel José. "Los estudios sobre inventarios y catálogos de bibliotecas en Aragón en la edad moderna." Bulletin hispanique, 99 (1997), 231-42.

Pedro Robles, Antonio E. de. “Pedro Rodríquez de Compomanes [1723-1803] y el Discurso sobre la educación popular [de los artesanos y su fomento].” Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, 17 (2007), 275-98. [Published in Madrid, 1775.]

Peep, Laine. “Studies of Library History in Tartu University Library, Estonia, USSR.” Libraries & Culture, 25, no. 1 (1990), 27-39. [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.]

Peiffer, Jeanne, and Raymond-Josuè Seckel. "Le géométral de la bibliothèque, ou comment l'espace determine la conception du catalogue [re: the example of eighteenth-century Göttingen]." Revue de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, no. 9 (c. March 2002), 52-56.

Pelczar, Maria (ed.). O bibliotece: Gda_sk, 997-1997. [About the Library: Gdansk, 997-1997.] Gdansk: Marpress, 1997. Pp. 166; illus.; index. [History of libraries in Gdansk, particularly the Polish Academy of Sciences' Library.]

Pelgen, Franz Stephan. “Das Vatikanische Geheimarchiv als Quellenfundus fur Buchhistoriker: Zum apostolischen Bücherkommissariat und Franz Xaver Anton Frhr. Von Scheben (1711-1779).” Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte, 15 (2006), 423-29.

Pelizzari, Maria Rosaria (ed.). Sulle vie della scrittura: Alfabetizzazione, cultura scritta e istituzioni in età moderna: Atti del convegno di studi, Salerno, 10-12 marzo 1987. Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1989. Pp. 650; illus.; index; maps; texts in Italian and French.

Pellegrin, Marie-Frédérique. “Lecteurs et auteurs: Des malades contagieux.” XVII^e Siècle, No. 254 (2012), 215-25. [Treating Nicolas Malebranche.]

Peñarroya Cruz, Jaime. La Prohibición de las Indias: Los libros perseguidos. 2 vols. Barcelona: Peñarroya, 1997.

Pénicaut, Emmanuel. "Madame Chamillart était-elle une 'Femme bibliophile'?" Bulletin du bibliophile (2002), 313-25; summary in English [325].

Penke, Olga. “Lectures et traductions hongroises de Montequieu entre 1779 et 1829.” Revue francaise d’histoire du livre, 134 (2013), 127-44.

Penney, Christine. A Bishop and His Books: Richard Hurd and his Library at Hartlebury Castle. Worchester: Hurd Library, 2011. Pp. 16. [On Google Books. Penney is the curator of the Hurd Library. Presumably this is the same text as published the same year in Book Collector (see below).]

Penney, Christine. “The Bishop and His Books” Richard Hurd and his Library at Hartlebury Castle.” Book Collector, 60 (2011), 401-16; 4 illustrations. [The actual library and shelves have survived from Hurd’s residence in late eighteenth century.]

Perkin, Michael. “Parochial Libraries: Compiling a Directory, and its Aftermath.” Library & Information History, 27 (2011), 217-22.

Perlmann, Joel, and Dennis Shirley. "When did New England Women Acquire Literacy?" William and Mary Quarterly, 48 (1991), 50-67.

Perol, Lucette. "La bibliothèque du collège oratorien d'Effiat." Pp. 85-103 in Le Collège de Riom et l'enseignement oratorien en France au XVIIIe siècle. Edited by Jean Ehrard. Paris: CNRS, 1993.

Perrot, Jean-Claude. "La Bibliothèque de Lavoisier, auteur de La Richesse territoriale du royaume de France." Pp. 395-98 in Une histoire intellectuelle de l'économie politique, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1992. Pp. 496; index.

Perschy, Kakob Michael. "Der historische Bestand der Burgenländischen Landesbibliothek." Biblios, 41 (1992), 126-34.

Persiani, P. "'Vedere biblioteche e vedere il mondo': Frederick Münter ricercatore di manoscritti ed i suoi Fragmenta Patrum Graecorum." Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, 28 (2002), 83-100.

Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 273; illus.; index. [Focused on the seventeenth century, the book includes chapters on "Writing and Authority in the Early Quaker Movement"; "The Production and Readership of Quaker Pamphlets"; "A National Movement: Pamphleteering in East Anglia": "'Women's Speaking Justified': Women and Pamphleteering"; and "Print and Political Participation." Rev. (with other books) by Evan Haefeli in Huntington Library Quarterly, 69 (2006), 469-76.]

Peters, Marion. "From the Study of Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717): His Life with Books and Manuscripts." Lias, 21 (1994), 1-47; illus.

Peters, Marion. "Nepotisme, patronage en boekopdrachten [book dedications] bij Nicolaes Witsen (1641-171), burgemeister van Amsterdam." LIAS, 25 (1998), 83-134; summary in English.

Pethers, Matthew. “’The Rage for Book-Making’: Textual Overproduction and the Crisis of Social Knowledge in the Early Republic.” Early American Literature, 42 (2007), 573-60.

Petina, Larissa. "The Book Collection of Count A. G. Bobrinskii at Pöltsamaa Castle: From the History of Estonian Estate Libraries in the Eighteenth Century." Solanus: International Journal for Russian and Eastern European Bibliographic, Library, and Publishing Studies, n.s. 15 (2001).

Petina, Larissa (ed.). Omanikumargid vanaraamatus: artiklite kogumil / Ownership Marks in Old Books: Collection of Articles. Tallinn: National Library of Estonia, 2008. Pp. 178; illustrations; texts on provenance research in several languages.

Petrella, Giancarlo (ed.). “Navigare nei mari dell’umano sapere”: Biblioteche e circolazione libraria nel Trentino e nell’Italia del XVIII secolo. (Biblioteche e bibliotecari del Trentino, 6.) Trent: Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 2008. Pp. xxi + 380. [Includes a preface by Franco Panizza, the introduction by Edoardo Barbieri, and then Mario Infelise’s “Questioni aperte sulla storia del libro del XVIII secolo” (xvii-xxi). There after a couple dozen essays grouped under five headings. The first, “La produzione editoriale nel Settecento,” includes the essays Silvano Groff, “La stampa ai confini: Editoria nel Trentino del Settecento” (3-22); Alberto petrucciani, “L’editoria e la città: Il caso di Genova nel XVIII secolo” (23-32); and Marco Callegari, “Strategie di produzione libraria a Padova nel Settecento” (33-43). The second section, “Tra cataloghi librari e istituzioni culturali,” includes such essays as Claudio Fedele, “Per la ricostruzione della biblioteca dei Gesuiti di Trento (59-68), Ugo Rozzo, “Il sistema delle biblioteche nel Friuli del Settecento” (81-99), and David J. Shaw on the Consortium of European Reseearch Libraries, or CERL (47-57). The third section, “Il commercio librario e la lettura nel Settecento,” includes Jean-François Gilmont, “Une révolution de la lecture au XVIII^e siècle?” (129-39); Rudj Gorian, “Per una storia editoriale delle traduzioni italiane del Mercure historique et politique de L’Aja” (141-54); Gian Paolo Romagnani, “Amadeo Svajer e Girolamo Tartarotti e la circolazione dei libri fra Venezia, Rovereto e la Germania” (169-82); and two other essays (by Francesco Ascoli and Giogia Filagrana). The fourth section, “Biblioteche organizzazione del sapere nel Settecento,” includes Marino Zorzi, “Biblioteche di nuova formazione a Venezia nel Settecento” (201-07); Laura Zumkeller, “Gli interventi culturali a Milano in epoca Teresiana e l’istituzione della Biblioteca di Brera” (209-22); Stefano Ferrari, “I libri di Giovanni Francesco Brunati: La biblioteca di un funzionario cesareo nella Roma del secondo Settecento” (247-54”; Rinaldo Filosi, “I manoscritti della biblioteca di Girolamo Tartarotti” (255-63); Rodolfo Taiani, “La biblioteca di Giovanni Pietro Muratori a Cavalese” (265-73); and Liliana De Venuto, “Le biblioteche minori della Val Legarina in et di Antico regime con relativa classificazione” (275-89). The fifth section, “I viaggi dei libri e le mappe del sapere,” includes Alberto Cadioli, “Libri in italiano nella biblioteca di Monrepos” (293-304); Stefano Locatelli, “Produzione e circolazione del libro di teatro nella Milano del Settecento” (305-35); and Luca Rivali, “Tra bibliografia e storia: Jacopo Tartarotti e il suo Saggio della Biblioteca tirolese (1733) (337-55 Rev. by Gérard Morisse in Revue francaise d’histoire du livre, 130 (2009), 299-300.]

Petrella, Giancarlo. L’Oro di Dongo ovvero per una storia del patrimonio librario del convento dei Frati Minori di Santa Maria del Fiume (con il catalogo degli incunaboli). (Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, 195.) Florence: Olschki, 2012. Pp. xviii + 222; illustrations. [The library is on the shores of Lake Como. Rev. by Alessandro Ledda in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 25 (March 2013), 8; by Stephen Parkin in Library and Information History, 29 (2013), 291-92; by Flammetta Sabba in Bibliothecae.it, 3, no. 1 (2014), 276-79 [e-journal on the WWW, ed. by Alfredo Serrai].

Petrucchiani, Alberto. "Il libro a Genova nel Settecento. II.2: I librai genovesi (1685-1797)." Bibliofilia, 96 (1994), 243-94; bibliography.

Petrucchiani, Alberto, and Dino Puncuh. Giacomo Filippo Durazzo (1729-1812): Il bibliofilo e il suo "cabinet de livres." Genova: La Durazziana, 1996. Pp. 123; illus. [Contains Petrucciani's "Bibliofili e librai nel Settecento: La formazione della Biblioteca Durazzo, 1776-1783" and Puncuh's "Giacomo Filippo Durazzo e la sua biblioteca."]

Pettegree, Andrew. “Rare Books and Revolutionaries.” History Today, 57, no. 6 (June 2007), 30-41. [Pettegree observes that small French towns have many old, rare books and then he endeavors to explain why, relative to the Revolution.]

Pettella, Tera. “Devotional Reading and Novel Form: The Case of David Simple.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 24, no. 2 (Winter 2011-2012), 279-99.

Petrella, Giancarlo. “Una biblioteca nobiliare ai piedi delle Alpi: La raccolte libraria dei conti di Castel Thun tra XV e XIX secolo: Un primo squardo.” Histoire et civilisation du livre, 10 (2014), 27-50.

Petrella, Giancarlo. I Libri nella torre: La Biblioteca di Castel Thun: Una collezione nobiliare tra XV e XX secolo (con il catalogo del fondo antico). Preface by Marielisa Rossi. Florence: Olschki, 2015. Pp. xlii + 460; bibliography. [Rev. by Dennis E. Rhodes in Library, 7th series, 16 (2015), 474-75.]

Pfoser, Alfred, and Peter Vodosek. (eds.) Zur Geschichte der Öffentlichen Bibliotheken in Österreich. (BVÖ-Materialien, 2.) Vienna: Büchereiverband Österreichs; WUV-Universitätsverlag, 1995. Pp. 216. [Papers from a Sept. 1994 symposium on the history of public libraries, held at the Bundesinstitut für Erwachsenenbildung. Rev. by Peter Hoare in Library History, 14 (1998), 76-77.]

Philip, Ian G. The Bodleian Library in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Lyell Lectures.) Oxford: Clarendon U. Press, 1983. Pp. 139. [Rev. (fav.) by Pamela Spence Richards in Library Quarterly, 55 (1985), 235-37.]

Philipson, John (ed.). The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne Bicentenary Lectures 1993. Newcastle upon Tyne: Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1994. Pp. xiv + 216; graph; illus.; index; photographic plates. [Introduction by Philipson precedes 11 essays, including Lord Asa Briggs's "The Foundation and Subsequent Role of the Society," treating Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and others in the Lunar Society and also the Newcastle booktrade; John Cannon's "The Historians" (of Newcastle and associated with the Society); William Feaver's "The Artists" (including Thomas Bewick [1753-1828]); and Percy A. Lovell's "The Musicians" (including Charles Avison [1709-70] and William Shield [1748-1829]).]

Pia-Lachapelle, Léone. "L'évolution d'une bibliothèque publique fondée avant 1789, dans une petite ville de Bourgogne: Saulieu" [the books of Claude Sallier, 1737]. Pp. 39-44 in Association bourguignonne des sociétés savantes, 58e congrès, Semur-en-Auxois, 15-17 mai 1987: Actes. Dijon: A. B. S. S., 1990.

Piau-Gillot, Colette. "La bibliothèque de Julie." In Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la lecture. (SVEC, 369.) Edited by Tanguy L'Aminot. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. Pp. vii + 360; index.

Pickard, James Roy. A History of King's College Library, Aberdeen, until 1860. 3 vols. Aberdeen: J. R. Pickard, 1987. [Vol. 2 concerns 1700-1799. Rev. (fav.) by Ronald H. Fritze in Libraries and Culture, 25 (1990), 278. [Vol. 2 concerns 1700-1799].

Pickering, Samuel F. Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children, 1749-1820. Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, 1993. Pp. x + 214; illus.; index. [Rev. (fav.) by Brian Alderson in Children's Books History Society Newsletter, 49 (Aug. 1994), 22-23; by Ruth Bottigheimer in Eighteenth-Century Life, 17, no. 3 (Nov. 1993), 89-103; by Karin Calvert in Journal of Education Quaterly, 34 (1994), 374-76; by Ed Hatton in Journal of the Early Republic, 13 (1993), 541-42.]

Pierce, Heidi. “Revising Eighteenth-Century Education: Sarah Scott’s [History of] Sir George Ellison.” Eighteenth-Century Women, 6 (2011), 131-57.

Pietrzkiewicz, Iwona. “Pro uso et eruditione Biblioteka Wejherowskiego probozzcza, Franciszka Walentego Ruthena z Przelomu XVII i XVIII wieku.” Roczniki Biblioteczne, 56 (2012), 113-36; summary in English. [On the personal library of Ruthen, 1674-1734.]

Pinna, Rosa Maria (comp.). Catalogo del Fondo librario gesuitico della Biblioteca universitaria di Sassari e del Convitto Canopoleno, di Santa Maria di Betlem, dell’Istituto di scienze politiche dell’Università di Sassari, della Chiesa arcipetrale di Ploaghe, del Seminario arcivescovile. 2 vols. Sassari: Edes, 2010. Pp. 1163. [Rev. by Natale Vacalebre in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 18 (June 2011), 9-10.]

Pinto de Castro, Aníbal. “Le XVIII^e siècle, âge d’or de la bibliothèque de l’université de Coimbra.” Bulletin du Bibliophile (2009), 279-86.

Piper, Andrew. Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 303; 28 illustrations; 5 maps. [Rev. (fav.) by Adrian Daub in Goethe Yearbook, 18 (2011), 325-27.]

Pirozynski, Jan, and Krystyna Ruszajowa. "Der Forschungsstand zur Geschichte polnischer Privatbibliotheken im 18. Jahrhundert." Wolfenbütteler Notizien zur Buchgeschichte, 18/19, no. 1 (1993/94 [1993]), 37-51.

Pišna, Jan. “Strucny prehled teorií a vyzkumu historického ctenáre a dejin ctení raněnovověkého období [“Brief summary of theories and researches of the historical reader and the history of reading during the Early Modern Age”]. Studia Bibliographica Posoniensia, 2012 (2012), 11-22.

Pišna, Jan. “Vyzxkum ctenářství ve vztahu ke knižní kultuře raného novověku--Poznámky k problematice” [The research of reading in relation to book culture of the early modern period--a few notes to the issue]. Studia Bibliograhica Posoniensi [Slovak ejournal from Bratislava], 2013 (2013), 11-21. [English translation of title is from the author’s summary. On the relation of a book’s physical features to reading.]

Pispisa, Marco. La Bibloteca dei conti de Bradis del Friuli (1500-1984). (Libri e biblioteche, 28.) Introduction by Giorgio Montecchi. Udine: Forum, 2012. Pp. 174. [History of a family library now belonging to the municipal library. Rev. by Sabra Flammeta in Bibliothecae.it, 2 (2013), 296-97; by Luca Rivali in L’Almanacco bibliographico, no. 24 (December 2012), 30.]

Piva, Franco. Anton Maria Lorgna. La biblioteca di uno scienziato settecentesco. (Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studie testi, 6.) Florence: Leo Olschki, 1992. Pp. 138; bibliography; index. [On the 2000-volume library of the scientist founding the Società Italiana delle Scienze (1782), more than half foreign imprints. Rev. by Jean Pandolfi in Dix-huitième siècle, 25 (1993), 517.]

Plachta, Bodo. Damnatur--Toleratur--Admittitur: Studien und Dokumente zur literarische Zensur im 18. Jahrhundert. (Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur, 43.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994. Pp. vi + 250 + microfiche; indices.

Plassmann, Engelbert, Jürgen Seefeldt [and Gisela von Busse and Horst Emestus]. Das Bibliotheswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Ein Handbuch. 3rd ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. Pp. xii + 510; illustrations; index; maps. [Revises von Busse and Emestus's Das Bibliotheswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.]

Plassmann, Max. "Die Pharmaziehistorische Bibliothek Dr. Helmut Vester in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf." Imprimatur, n.s. 19 (2005), 51-66.

Plaza, Joanna. "Z problematyki badan nad Biblioteka Zaluskich." Rocznik Biblioteki Narodowej, 30/31 (1994/1995), 53-60.

Plaza, Joanna, and Bozena Sajna. Pamiatki dziejów Biblioteki Zaluskich. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1997. Pp. 206; illus. [On the Zaluski family library, see also Tadeuz Zarzebski's "Biblioteka Zaluskich" in Arcana [Cracow], 6 (1997), 18-34.]

Plihái, Katalin (comp.). Gróf Széchényi Frenc [1754-1820] térképeinek és atlaszainak katalógusa / The Catalogue of Count Ferenc Széchényi's Maps and Atlases. Budapest: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, 2002. Illustrations and maps (some in color); indices.

Plotnikov, Sergey N. "Russia in Terms of Reading: Russian Reading Culture in 1564-1993." Translated by Anatoly A. Covalioff. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 69 (1994), 241-63.

Podhurst, Suzanne J. “Bound to Last: Commonplace Books and the Pursuit of Readings Past.” Princeton University Library Chronicle, 70, no. 1 (Autumn 2008), 9-34.

Pogány, György. “Nézetek a noi olvasásról Magyarországon a felvilágosodás elso szakaszában” [Views on female readers in Hungary in the early period of the Enlightenment]. Könyvtári Figyelo, 54.3 (2008): 450-61.

Pogány, György. “Régi magyar könyvtár III/XVIII. század. 2. kötet: 1761-1800” [Old Hungarian library III/18^th century. 2^nd volume: 1761-1800]. Könyv, könyvtáros, könyvtár 17.1 (2008): 56-58. (Book review)

Pogány, György. “Veszedelmes olvasmányok. Erotikus illusztrációk a 18. századi francia irodalomban” [Dangerous readings. Erotic illustrations in eighteenth-century French literature]. Könyv, könyvtáros, könyvtár, 17.5 (2008): 52-54. [Review of an exhibition held at Országos Széchenyi Könyvtár in Budapest.]

Pohánka, Éva, and Mariann Szilágyi (eds.) Klimo György püspök és kora. Egyház, mûvelõdés, kultüra a 18. században. A 2010. október 14- én, Pécsett, Klimo György pécsi püspök születésének 300. évfordulójára megrendezett tudományos konferencia tanulmányai. (A Pécsi Egyetemi Könyvtár kiadvanyai, 9.) Pécs, Hungary: PTE Egyetemi Könyvtár, 2011. Pp. 300; illustrations. [Includes Éva Pohánka’s “A nyilvános pécsi püspök Könyvtár berendezésének és állományának ‘rekonstrukciója” (17-27); Erzsébet Löffler’s “Az Egri Foszékesegyházi Könyvtár berendezésének ikonográfiái programja” (28-38); “Hendre Doina Biro’s “Batthyány Ignác le fondateur de la Bibliothèque Batthyaneum à Álba Iulia: Sur ses projects scientifiques et culturels et sur ses models religieux” (39-58); Miklós Boda’s “’Tisztelet Klímának’: A Pécsi Egyetemi Könyvtár jubileuma (1774-1974)” (61-70); László N. Szelestei’s “Klimo György püspök szerepe Ludovico Antonio Muratori mûveinek magyarországi terjesztésében” (70-85); Gariella Hartvig’s “Michael Denis bécsi császári könyvtáros és a Klimo Könyvtárban található Ossian-fordítása” (86-95); László Jankovits’ “Emblémàk Berényi Zsigmond születésnapjára” (96-107); Mariann Szilágyi’s “Magyar nyelvû nyomtatványok nyomában a Klimo Könyvtárban” (108-22); Istvám Horváth’s “Adatok a pécsi Papnevelõ Intézet uradalma 18. százado mûködéséhez” (185-97); Judit Borsy’s “A pécsi egyházmegye exempt területeinek átvétele 1776-ban” (198-229); Ferenc Tegzes’s “A gyükési Szent Bertalan-Kápolna” (230-68); and Adrienn Tengely’s “A Boldogságos Szuz Szeplõtelen Szivének Tásulata” (269-73). Rev. by Helga Csóka-Jaksa in Könyv Könyvtár Könyvtáros (c. 2013) an online journal at http: //ki.oszk.hu/3K/2012/09/.]

Pollack, John H. (curator). Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin. Designed by Greg Bear and Andrea Gottschalk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, [May 26] 2010. Electronic library exhibition: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/benjaminfranklin300/virtual.cfm. [The exhibition is related to the catalogue with essays published the previous year, edited by John Pollack: “The Good Education of Youth”: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin. Foreword by H. Carton Rogers; Introduction (“Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin”) by Michael Zuckerman. New Castle: Oak Knoll; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2009.]

Pollack, John H. (ed.), with writings by Benjamin Franklin and others. “The Good Education of Youth”: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin. Foreword by H. Carton Rogers; Introduction (“Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin”) by Michael Zuckerman. New Castle: Oak Knoll; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2009. Pp. 352; exhibition catalogue; illustrations; index to the essays and another to the catalogue and photographic essay; map. [This books appears to be an unusual composite. It is partly an edition of Franklin’s pamphlet that proposed a plan for the institution that became the University of Pennsylvania, partly a contextual study of the educational opportunities in Franklin’s corner of Pennsylvania, and partly an exhibition catalogue. The Franklin tract is Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania (1749), which, notes the press release, “stressed social utility, secular independence, and an English-language based curriculum.” Most of the nine essays then answer such background questions as who taught whom where and how (these contributions are by Patrick Erben on education in the German community, William C. Kashatus on the Quakers’ educational practices, Carla Mulford on Franklin’s positions on educating women, John C. Van Horne on efforts to education African-Americans, Michael Zuckerman’s democratic or inclusive attitudes toward educating the public. The volume includes the full catalogue of the exhibition on education in the middle of the eighteenth century, drawing on the collections of Penn, the Library Company, and other local libraries (roughly from 204 to 247). Also included is a photoessay on local surviving school buildings (286-325) and a brief illustrated essay by Lynne Farrington on the “Friendly Instructor,” a newly rediscovered Franklin imprint (248-51).]

Pollard, Mary Paul. Dublin's Trade in Books, 1550–1800. (Lyell Lectures, 1986–1987.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 280; facsimiles; graphs; illus.; tables.

Pon, Lisa, and Craig Kallendorf (eds.). The Books of Venice / Il Libro veneziano. (Miscellanea marciana, 20.) Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana; and La Musa Talia; New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 619; illus. (some in color); music. [Papers from a 2007 conference on Venetian books 1450-1750, with lengthy addition, treating the book arts, reading, the publishing business. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are not frequently treated in the essays. Included are two lengthy keynote addresses, one by Marino Zorzi on Venetian libraries, “Le Biblioteche veneziane, espressione di una singolare cività,” and another by Neil Harris, “Ombre della storia italiana del libro,” a summary of printing in Venice into the twentieth century. Also relevant is Huub van der Linden’s “Apostolo Zeno as Reader and (Re)Writer: Acknowledgement of Influence and Anxiety of Authorship.” Rev. by Anna Giulia Cavagna in SHARP News, 19, no. 2 (Spring 2010), 6-7; by Paul F. Gehl in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 104 (2010), 400-02; by Raphaële Mouren in Histoire et civilisation du livre, 6 (2010), 374-77.]

Ponzani, Vittorio. “Fare cose serie in modo faceto: La biblioteca circolante di Angelo Fortunato Forgmiggini a Roma nei primi decenni del Novecento.” Nuovi annali della scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari, 28 (2014), 69-94.

Ponziani, Luigi. La “Dèlfico” nei decenni preunitari: Alle origini delle biblioteche in Abruzzo. (Delficina, 5.) Teramo: Biblioteca provinciale Melchiorre Dèlfiico, Provincia di Teramo, 2014. Pp. 109; illus. [Rev. by Rudj Gorian in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 34 (June 2015), 32.]

Ponziani, Luigi. Letterati, libri e lettori nell’Abruzzo della Restaurazione. Teramo: Edizioni Richerche & Redazioni, 2012. Pp. 464; indices. [On the print culture (periodicals, readers, etc.) of Abruzzo in the first half of the eighteenth century, employing records of a circulating library. Rev. (briefly) by Marcello Mozzato in L’Almanacco bibliografico, no. 26 (July 2013), 35.

Poole, William. “Book Economy in New College, Oxford in the Later Seventeenth Century: Two Documents.” History of Universities, 25, no. 1 (2010), 56-137.

Poole, William. “Duplicates of Sir Hans Sloan in the Bodleian Library: A Detective Story, with Some Comments on Library Organization.” Bodleian Library Record, 23, no. 2 (2010), 192-213; illus.

Poole, William. "A Fragment of the Library of Theodore Haak (1605-1690)." Electronic British Library Journal (2007), article 6, 38 pp. in PDF; bibliography. . [The 95 volumes in German and Dutch that Sir Hans Sloane dnated to the Bodleian Library in 1703 were not duplicates in his library but were part of the library of Sloan's friend Theodore Haak.]

Poole, William. "Francis Lodwick, Hans Sloane, and the Bodleian Library." Library, 7th series, 7 (2006), 377-418.

Poole, William. John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning. Oxford: Bodleian Library (distributed in North America by U. of Chicago Press), 2010. Pp. 111; appendix: “Aubrey’s Books”; bibliography; 75 color illus.

Poole, William. “John Aubrey, the two George Ents, and the ‘Paduan’ Laureæ Apollinari.” Bodleian Library Record, 27, no. 1 (2014), 88-104. [Treats book collecting.]

Poole, William. “Loans from the Library of Sir Edward Sherburne and the 1685 English Translation of Xenophon.” Library, 7th series, 14 (2013), 80-87. [Sherburne was a poet, student of astronomy, and clerk at the ordnance office; he compiled two catalogues of his library, the second of which (1677-87) records borrowers of his library’s books, one of whom was John Newman (d. 1687), schoolmaster and translator of Xenophon’s History of the Affairs of Greece (1685).]

Poole, William. “Thomas Barlow’s Books at Queen’s.” The Queen’s College Library Insight, 3 (2013), 3-7. [On the donation of Bishop Thomas Barlow (1607-1691), who was Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1658-1677.]

Poole, William. “Two Early Readers of John Milton: John Beale and Abraham Hill.” Milton Quarterly, 38, no. 2 (2004), 76-99.

Popiel, Jennifer J. Rousseau’s Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France. Durham: U. of New Hampshire Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 262; 15 illustrations. [Rev. (with another book) by Carol Blum in a review essay (“Rousseau and the Feminist Revision”) in Eighteenth-Century Life, 34, 2 (Fall 2010).]

Popinigis, Danuta, and Klaus-Peter Koch (eds.). Musikalische Beziehungen zwischen Mitteldeutschland und Danzig im 18. Jahrhundert. Sinzig: Studio, 2002. Pp. 312; biographies and checklists of composers from Danzig (Gdansk) [237-312]; illus. [Includes Violetta Kostka's "Musikhandschriften mit Werken von Bach-Schülern in der Danzinger Bibliothek der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"; Peter Oliver Loew's bio-bibliography "Lexicon Danziger Komponisten (mitte 19. bis mitte 20 Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der lokalen Musikkultur"; Ewa Ogonowska's "Musikalische Sammlungen in den Beständen der Danziger Bibliothek der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"; and Danuta Sziagowska's "The Manuscript Collection of Johann Theodor Roemhildt's Cantatas from the Polish Academy of Sciences Library in Gdansk."]

Porret, Michel. “Journaux et livres: La lecture dans les aventures du reporter sans plume Tintin.” Histoire et civilisation du livre, 8 (2012), 327-56.

Porter, Roy. "Reading Is Bad for Your Health." History Today, 48, no. 3 (1998), 11-16. [Includes 17C and 18C cautionary remarks on the ill-effects of reading.]

Postel, Claude. "La présence de Guillaume Postel dans quelques grandes bibliothèques du XVIIIe siècle." Bulletin du bibliophile (1994), 38-55; summary in English. [A study of 18th-century bibliophilia, focusing on 21 18th-century libraries found with copies of Postel's writings.]

Postma, Ferenc. "Frustula Academica Franekerana: Eine erste Ergänzung zum Auditorium Academiae Franekerensis." Magyar Könyvszemle, 114 (1998), 13-25.

Postma, Ferenc, and Jakob van Sluis (comps.). Bibliographie der Reden, Disputationen und Gelegenheitsdruckwerke der Universität und des Athenäums in Franeker 1585-1843. Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 1995. Pp. lii + 706. [Rev. by István Monok in Magyar Könyvszemle, 114 (1998), 319-22.]

Potten, Edward. “Beyond Bibliophilia: Contextualizing Private Libraries in the Nineteenth Century.” Library & Information History, 31 (2015), 73-94; summary.

Potten, Edward. “’A Great Number of Usefull Books’: The Hidden Library of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (1652-1694).” Library & Information History, 25 (2009), 33-49.

Potter, Edward F. “Hypochrondria, Onanism, and Reading in Goethe’s Werther.” Goethe Yearbook, 19 (2002), 117-41.

Potter, Paul. "Taste Sets the Price: [Richard] Mead, [Anthony] Askew, and the Birth of Bibliomania in Eighteenth-Century England." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 12 (1995), 241-57.

Poulouin, Claudine, and Jean-Claude Arnould (eds.). Notes: Études sur l’annotation en littérature. Mount-Sain-Aignan Cedex: Universités de Rouen et Havre, 2008. Pp. 377. [The essays include the editors introduction and some other theoretical discussions and then particular examinations: Jean-Marie Gleize’s “Noter, notuler, marginer, écrire” (15-26); Carole Dornier’s “Notes, additions, intercalcations: Les incertitudes du statut textuel dans les Pensées de Montesquieu” (63-72); Christophe Martin’s “Les notes auctoriales dan l’Émile de Rousseau” (73-90); Martine Morel’s “Editer l’Iter suecicum de Pierre-Daniel Huet” (172-84); Mathilde Bombart’s “Le savoir, des clés: Note, érudition et lecture à clé: Un annotateur de Boileau au 18e siècle, Claude Brossette” (185-202); François Bessire’s “Les suites comiques de l’érudition: La note parodique de Saint-Hyacinthe à Du Laurens” (243-66); and Poulouin’s “Le Voyage du Jeune anacharsis en Greèce [1788]: Usage complexè et mise en fiction de la note savante (267-89).]

Powell, Manushag N. "Johnson and His 'Readers' in the Epistolary Rambler Essays." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 44 (2004), 571-94.

Powers, Sandra. "The Society of the Cincinnati Library [in Washington, DC]." Uncommon Sense: A Newsletter Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, no. 107 (Summer 1998), 14-20 [4 pp.]. no. 103-9 111, 113 [