Title: The book culture of a colonial American city :
Authors: Wolf, Edwin,
Date: 1988
Publisher: Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: "Sundry Printed Books" -- Books for Large People and Small -- 'They Lived History' -- Lawyers and Law Books -- 'We are a kind of Posterity in respect to them' -- Appendix I: Booksellers' Advertisements in Philadelphia Newspapers 1720-1776 -- Appendix 2: A Sampling of Philadelphia Wills with Books -- Index.
Notes: "Lyell lectures in bibliography, 1985-6."
Subject headings (LCSH): Book industries and trade--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.; Books and reading--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.; Booksellers and bookselling--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.; Libraries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--17th century.; Libraries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--17th-18th centuries.; Libraries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Intellectual life.; United States--Intellectual life--18th century.