This comprehensive volume, first published in 1864, covers the
history of libraries from classical times to the nineteenth
century, principally in England but also further afield. The author
was an influential figure in the founding of municipal libraries in
nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as
crucial to education and civilisation. He emphasises the importance
of individual collectors in the building of great libraries, and
examines the personal holdings of many writers and scholars as well
as members of royal families, the aristocracy, and clergy. Some of
these are well known, others less commonly encountered in surveys
of library history. Edwards also discusses the subsequent history
of these collections, their dispersal or incorporation into other
libraries. Other important topics covered by Edwards include the
development and organisation of the State Paper Office and Public
Records Office from the medieval period onwards.
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