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Introduction [Annika Bautz and James Gregory] Part I: Renaissance Collectors 1. Building a Library Without Walls: The Early Years of the Bodleian Library [Robyn Adams and Louisiane Ferlier] 2. Universal Knowledge and Self-Fashioning: Cardinal Bernardino Spada’s Collection of Books [Giulia Weston] 3. "A Paradise & Cabinet of Rarities": Thomas Browne, His Library, and Communities of Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Norfolk [Lucy Gwynn] 4. Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: A "Collecting Friendship" as Told Through a Reevaluation of Manuscript PL 2237 and Print Album PL 2062 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge [Catherine Sutherland] Part II: Gentlemen and Their Libraries from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 5. "Ye Best Tast of Books & Learning of Any Other Country Gentn": The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676–1692 [Mary Chadwick and Shaun Evans] 6. Fashioning a Gentleman’s Library: Displaying the Cottonian Collection, 1791–1816 [Susan Leedham] 7. "He Was Always Fond of Books": John Couch Adams’s Genesis as an Academic Collector [Sophie Defrance] Part III: Beyond Mere Records of Collecting: On Book Catalogues 8. From Francis Bacon’s Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson’s Literary History: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743–45) [Alex Wright] 9. Booksellers’ Catalogues and Readership in the Luso-Brazilian World [Luciane Scarato] 10. Reading in the Provinces: Plymouth Public Library’s Nineteenth-Century Catalogues [Annika Bautz] Part IV: Bibliomania 11. Satire and the Bibliomania in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain [Shayne Husbands] 12. The "Fancy for Fine Printing": Collecting Whittaker’s Golden Magna Carta [James Gregory] 13. Blurred Lines in the History of Domestic Libraries in the Age of Dibdin’s Bibliomania [Keith Manley]