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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 2425 British owners from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and is being expanded. [https://bookowners.online/Contact Feedback] from users is welcome, via the site, our [https://forms.gle/tJyBvaibJhrVKwH39 anonymous user survey], [https://twitter.com/BookOwners Twitter] 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= |[[William Dugdale 1605-1685|William Dugdale 1605-1685|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="teaser">[[File:P1180658(3).JPG | link=Richard Heber 1774-1833 | 720px]]
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<div class="teaser">[[File:Clement_Little_1580_stamp.jpg | link=Clement Litill 1527-1580 | 720px]]
  
[[Richard Heber 1774-1833 | Books from the huge library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), with over 150,000 books, can often be recognised by his tiny but distinctive handwriting on a flyleaf; the "Bibliotheca Heberiana" ink stamp was added selectively after his death to help sell the books]]</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:Bedwell-BLSloaneMS1796.jpg | link=William Bedwell ca.1563-1632 | 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>
 
 
[[William Bedwell ca.1563-1632 | The manuscripts of William Bedwell (ca.1563-1632) are notable for his idiosyncratic Arabic handwriting, and his decorative use of coloured inks and ornaments]]</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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