Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge Wickenden

Name: Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge Wickenden
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of KnowledgeAuthor(s): Alice Wickenden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009497398, 978-1009497398\nSynopsis\nOn his death in 1753, Hans Sloane's collection of books and manuscripts was estimated at 50,000 volumes, and, combined with his collected objects, would become the founding core of the British Library and British Museum. Delving into the particular history of this remarkable collection, Alice Wickenden asks wide-reaching questions about archival practices and knowledge production, showing how books function both as and alongside objects. Hers is the first book to bring the theoretical questions and methodologies arising from material culture and book history alongside a full-length study of the founding book collection of the British Library. Each carefully-selected case study raises questions that, though seemingly playful, strike at t?