Colonial revivals : the Nineteenth-Century lives of early American books /
In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of mate...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2019
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