stiff paper wrappers
2005 · New Haven, CT
by Babcock, Robert G. (editor)
New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2005. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. Books tell us many things beyond what their authors write in them. Single copies of books, for instance, often reveal their particular history, who owned them, who read them, who gave them as gifts, how they changed hands over the years. This catalogue of the Beinecke Library exhibition, A Book of Her Own, explores an unusual aspect of book history: all of the books in the display, based on various sorts of evidence contained in the books, were owned by women before the year 1700. (Inventory #: 99721)