Literature of libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. / Edited by John Cotton Dana and Henry W. Kent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929, editor.

Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948, editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library science--Early works to 1800.

Library science.

Library science--History--17th century--Sources.

Library science--History--18th century--Sources.

Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.

History.

Local Subjects:

Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.

Genre:

Early works.

History.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 volumes in 1. ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Reprint Corp., 1967.

Contents:

The duties and qualifications of a librarian/J.-B. Cotton des Houssayes.

The reformed librarie-keeper/John Dury.

The life of Sir Thomas Bodley/Sir Thomas Bodley.

Two tracts on ... parochial libraries in Scotland/James Kirkwood.

A brief outline of the history of libraries/Justus Lipsius.

News from France, or, A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin, preceded by The surrender of the library/Gabriel Naudé.

Notes:

Reproduction of the 1906-07 ed. published by A.C. McClurg, Chicago.

OCLC:

735566