From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning: Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bulletin): 19 (Houghton Library Publications) - Hardcover

Bond, William H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0976547295 ISBN 13: 9780976547297

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This checklist of Thomas Hollis' gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Promoting civil and religious liberty, Hollis distributed books in his distinctive binding across Britain, Europe, and the American colonies. Hollis' aims for Harvard College have received careful attention from historians and bookmen, but the full extent of his donations has not been clear until now. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond's 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

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Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library

About the Author:

William H. Bond was Librarian of Houghton Library, Emeritus, Harvard University. Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich. William Stoneman is Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0976547295
• ISBN 13: 9780976547297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275