This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history
of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in
Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding
municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded
access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation.
Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here
in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval
libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in
depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum
and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of
Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of
America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to
Hungary and Russia. This final volume (in four 'books') sets out
Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical
layout and classification to rules and regulations.
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