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The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, To 1640 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,692
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The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, To 1640 (Hardcover): Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, To 1640 (Hardcover)

Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber

Series: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

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This volume is a survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing patterns in the formation of book collections in the earlier medieval period, traces the combined impact of the activities of the mendicant orders and the scholarship of the universities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the adoption of the library room and the growth of private book collections in the fourteenth and fifteenth. The volume then focuses upon the dispersal of the monastic libraries in the mid-sixteenth centuries, the creation of new types of library, and finally, the steps whereby the collections amassed by antiquaries came to form the bases of the national and institutional libraries of Britain and Ireland.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Release date: October 2006
First published: October 2006
Editors: Elisabeth Leedham-Green • Teresa Webber
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-78194-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
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LSN: 0-521-78194-9
Barcode: 9780521781947

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