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This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period - most of which have survived - shonwing the diversity of book owners and borrowers. Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, the author also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares.

Book history --- United States --- Great Britain --- 028 --- 027.1 <41> --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- 027.1 <41> Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Book collecting --- Book collectors --- Private libraries --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book owners --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Bibliophily --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- History --- Biography --- United States of America --- Bibliophiles --- Bibliophilie --- Bibliothèques privées --- Grande-bretagne --- Angleterre --- Biographies --- Etats-unis --- Histoire --- Bibliophiles -- Grande-bretagne --- Bibliophiles -- Angleterre -- Biographies --- Bibliophiles -- Etats-unis --- Bibliophilie -- Angleterre -- Histoire --- Bibliothèques privées -- Angleterre -- Histoire

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1600-1699 --- gardeners

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This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers' cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played-and continues to play-an integral role in everyday British life.

Gardens --- Gardening --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Bedding (Horticulture) --- Agriculture --- Horticulture --- History. --- Dwellings --- Employment

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An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.   Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests-diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books-and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.

Cabinet officers --- Diarists --- Pepys, Samuel, --- Evelyn, John, --- Friends and associates. --- Great Britain --- History --- Court and courtiers

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