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Record 6187

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's shop 'looking over the books a good while,' going into Innys's and 'read[ing] there all afternoon till after six' ..."
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1720 and 1729
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: other location: Vaillant's [book] shop
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:John Byrom
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: books
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6187  
Source - Print  
  Author: Adrian Johns
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
  Place of Publication: Chicago
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 118 n.110
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 118 n.110, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6187, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from John Byrom, The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. 2 vols in 4. Ed. R. Parkinson, Manchester, 1854-7 I: 105.

 

 

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