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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

 
9780976547297: From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning: Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bulletin): 19 (Houghton Library Publications)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0976547295 ISBN 13: 9780976547297
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This checklist of Thomas Hollis’s 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’s 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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About the Authors

William H. Bond was Librarian of Houghton Library, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich.

William P. Stoneman is Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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