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Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the
hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It
exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime
contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The
authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in
the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question
for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to
steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households
and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings
tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the
phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and
consumers. Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London will appeal
to readers interested in the connected histories of metropolitan
life, crime, and the book in this period, and in the uses of
digital resources in humanities research.
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