The Englishman and his books
Subtitle: in the early nineteenth century
By: by Amy Cruse ...
Publisher: G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd.
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Notes: Deals with the readers, rather than the writers, of books; follows the author's "The shaping of English literature", which attempted to tell the story of the readers in England from the earliest times to the closing years of the eighteenth century. cf. Pref.