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Book Review

London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811. By James Raven. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xxii, 522 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-406-0.)
This study sits at the intersection of a number of recent research interests: the history of the book, that of transatlantic communications, and the intellectual history of the Anglo-American colonies. It consists of two parts. About half of the volume, part 2, is an edited transcription of the Charleston Library Society's "Copy Book of Letters," which contains information on the society's acquisition of books. Part 1 is an extended analysis of the letter book and what it tells us about the society, its operations, and its place in the story of South Carolina and of the broader communities of which that colony was a part. . . .
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