Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century by Earle Havens

Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

Earle Havens

99 pages paperback 2001

1 edition

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"Commonplace books" are collections of quotations, anecdotes, proverbs, and various other types of text extracts. They and the theories informing their compilation were the progenitors of reference works that are now taken quite for granted: encyc...

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