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<p id="lead"><i>Book Owners Online</i> is a [https://www.bookowners.online/Category:All_Owners directory of historical book owners], with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources. It currently has entries for over 1850 British owners of the 17th and 18th centuries, and is being expanded. [https://bookowners.online/Contact Feedback] from users is welcome, via the site or our [https://www.facebook.com/groups/424763118619629 Facebook] group.</p>
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<p id="lead"><i>Book Owners Online</i> is a [https://www.bookowners.online/Category:All_Owners directory of historical book owners], with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources. It currently has entries for over 2600 British owners from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and is being expanded. Contributions from users are welcome via our [https://bookowners.online/Contact submission forms], and feedback can be sent via [mailto:bookownersonline@bibsoc.org.uk email] or our [https://forms.gle/tJyBvaibJhrVKwH39 anonymous user survey]. You can also find us on [https://twitter.com/BookOwners Twitter] and [https://www.facebook.com/groups/424763118619629 Facebook].
  
[[file:William-dugdale-detail.jpg | thumb| 480px| link= |[[Sir William Dugdale]]: etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1656 ([https://bookowners.online/File:William-dugdale-detail.jpg detail])]]
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[[file:William-dugdale-detail.jpg | thumb| 480px| link= |[[William Dugdale 1605-1685|William Dugdale]]: etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1656 ([https://bookowners.online/File:William-dugdale-detail.jpg detail])]]
  
 
Book owners played an essential role in creating the documentary heritage we value today. Our libraries, curating our collective printed and written memory, were built on countless donations or purchases from individuals over the centuries.  Books which they kept and valued have significantly shaped ideas about our literary legacy.
 
Book owners played an essential role in creating the documentary heritage we value today. Our libraries, curating our collective printed and written memory, were built on countless donations or purchases from individuals over the centuries.  Books which they kept and valued have significantly shaped ideas about our literary legacy.
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<div class="two-columns"> [[About | <dl><dt>About this Site</dt>  
 
<div class="two-columns"> [[About | <dl><dt>About this Site</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online is a publication of the Bibliographical Society in partnership with the UCL Centre for Lives and Letters (CELL), with a rationale developed by David Pearson.</dd></dl>]] [[User Guide | <dl><dt>What's in BOO</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online is a publication of the Bibliographical Society in partnership with the UCL Centre for Lives and Letters (CELL), with a rationale developed by David Pearson.</dd></dl>]] [[User Guide | <dl><dt>What's in BOO</dt>  
<dd>Book Owners Online is built around a backbone of named owners of libraries, who died between 1610 and 1715, for each of whom there is an entry with a standard structure.</dd></dl>]] [[Searching and Browsing |<dl><dt>How to use BOO</dt>  
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<dd>Book Owners Online is built around a backbone of named owners of libraries, who died between the 16th and 18th centuries, for each of whom there is an entry with a standard structure.</dd></dl>]] [[Searching and Browsing |<dl><dt>How to use BOO</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online works much like Wikipedia. Search using simple keywords in the box above, or browse using special semantic features.</dd></dl>]]
 
<dd>Book Owners Online works much like Wikipedia. Search using simple keywords in the box above, or browse using special semantic features.</dd></dl>]]
 
[[Editorial Team| <dl><dt>Editorial Team</dt>  
 
[[Editorial Team| <dl><dt>Editorial Team</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online has an editorial team of researchers and volunteers, supported by an advisory group of external experts, including academics, librarians, and bibliophiles.</dd></dl>]] [[Acknowledgements | <dl><dt>Acknowledgements</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online has an editorial team of researchers and volunteers, supported by an advisory group of external experts, including academics, librarians, and bibliophiles.</dd></dl>]] [[Acknowledgements | <dl><dt>Acknowledgements</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online wishes to acknowledge the help of its funders and those institutions that have granted permission for use of images of books in their collections on the site.</dd></dl>]] [[Contact|<dl><dt>Contact Us : Help Us</dt>  
 
<dd>Book Owners Online wishes to acknowledge the help of its funders and those institutions that have granted permission for use of images of books in their collections on the site.</dd></dl>]] [[Contact|<dl><dt>Contact Us : Help Us</dt>  
<dd>Contact details for the Book Owners Online office and editors. We welcome all comments, corrections, and suggestions.</dd>
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<dd>Contact details for the Book Owners Online office and editors. We welcome all comments, corrections, contributions, and suggestions.</dd>
 
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<div class="teaser">[[File:HarleyStamp.jpg | link=Robert Harley 1661-1724 | 720px]]
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<div class="teaser">[[File:Clement_Little_1580_stamp.jpg | link=Clement Litill 1527-1580 | 720px]]
  
[[Robert Harley 1661-1724 | Ink stamps to mark book ownership were common from the later 18th century onwards, and are sometimes found earlier; black or red ink is usual, but Robert Harley, founder of the celebrated Harleian Library, used a facsimile signature stamped in gold.]]</div>
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[[Clement Litill 1527-1580 | A welcome donation is enabling ''Book Owners Online'' to begin systematically enhancing the database with Scottish owners; we will be adding many more entries and images like the one for Clement Litill, who gave books to the town of Edinburgh in 1580]]</div>
  
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<div class="teaser">[[File:Starkey-A22.4F62-KristynaStrnadova.jpg | link=John Starkey 1627?-1694 | 720px]]
  
<div class="teaser">[[File:PlumeThomas1.JPG| link=Thomas Plume| 720px]]
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[[John Starkey 1627?-1694 | We are very grateful for the contributions provided by BOO's users and collaborators, such as this image of the inscription of John Starkey, identified and submitted by staff at Lambeth Palace Library]]</div>
 
 
[[Thomas Plume | Some, but not all, of the books given to Thomas Plume's Library at Maldon by its founder, in 1704, have a code looking like a conjoined P and L, but we don't know its significance.]]</div>
 
  
 
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Revision as of 14:37, 12 December 2022

Book Owners Online is a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources. It currently has entries for over 2600 British owners from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and is being expanded. Contributions from users are welcome via our submission forms, and feedback can be sent via email or our anonymous user survey. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

William Dugdale: etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1656 (detail)

Book owners played an essential role in creating the documentary heritage we value today. Our libraries, curating our collective printed and written memory, were built on countless donations or purchases from individuals over the centuries. Books which they kept and valued have significantly shaped ideas about our literary legacy.

Key questions which BOO seeks to answer include “did this person own books?”, "how many and what kind?", "what happened to them?", and “where do I look for more information?”. At a time of growing interest in provenance studies, private libraries, and work on the material book, it fills a gap in our book historical reference sources. There are many online sites which start from books or libraries and provide provenance data, but BOO starts with owners.

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