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Serials and their readers, 1620-1914 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

English monarchs and their books : from Henry VII to Charles II / T.A. Birrell.

The sources of Western literacy : the Middle Eastern civilizations / Felix Reichmann.

Scenes of seduction : prostitution, hysteria, and reading difference in nineteenth-century France / Jann Matlock.

The social life of books : reading together in the eighteenth-century home / Abigail Williams.

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Serials and their readers, 1620-1914 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

English monarchs and their books : from Henry VII to Charles II / T.A. Birrell.

The sources of Western literacy : the Middle Eastern civilizations / Felix Reichmann.

Scenes of seduction : prostitution, hysteria, and reading difference in nineteenth-century France / Jann Matlock.

The social life of books : reading together in the eighteenth-century home / Abigail Williams.