The gift of reading

Binckes, F (2023) 'The gift of reading.' In: Perkins, N, ed. Gifts and books: from early myth to the present. Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, pp. 94-120. ISBN 9781851246106

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Abstract

The chapter analyses multiple facets of the relationships between gifts and books, with a focus on the gift as a site of tension. Its focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on books held in the collection and archives of the Bodleian Library.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Divisions:	School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
Research Centres and Groups:	Making Books: Creativity, Print Culture, and the Digital Research Centre
Date Deposited:	18 Jul 2025 15:08
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2025 15:08
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17134

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