The English Library before 1700 : Studies in Its History.. This item is unavailable.The English Library before 1700 : Studies in Its History.

Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, xi, 273 pp, 22 leaves of plates From the blurb: "Within the Western library tradition the English library has, throughout its history, preserved a native individuality and had its own distinctive part to play. This book is concerned to describe how it came into existence and what was accomplished in the early centuries of its development, as far as these matters can be decided by the best modern scholarship. At the same time the book endeavours to be fully readable and requires no existing specialist knowledge. Although the general plan of the work is historical, there are few aspects of library economy before 1700 that are not discussed. Twenty-three photographic illustrations accompany the text." Contents: The monastic library; The bibliography of the manuscript book; The universities and the mediaeval library; The contents of the mediaeval library; The private collector and the revival of Greek learning. Contents: The preservation of the classics; The dispersal of the libraries in the sixteenth century; The Elizabethan society of antiquaries and the formation of the Cottonian library; The libraries of Cambridge, 1570-1700. Contents: Oxford libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Name on front free endpaper, endpapers mildly foxed, a few light pencil marks and notes to text, Good in a chipped and spotted dustwrapper.…