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Repertorium bibliographicum - Or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries (Paperback)
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Repertorium bibliographicum - Or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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Little is known about William Clarke, the author of this 1819
survey of libraries in Britain, though hints in the opening pages
suggest that he was acquainted with the activities of the Roxburghe
Club. His object is 'to assist ... the collector in his pursuit of
valuable editions of rare books'. A short survey of the major
libraries of Europe is followed by descriptions of the collections
which make up the British Museum's library, the great 'public'
libraries, including those of Oxford and Cambridge, and the
libraries of learned societies. Private libraries covered include
those of Sir Joseph Banks, William Beckford, and the duke of
Marlborough. The final portion of the work describes the content of
some great library sales (a fuller list of sales having been given
earlier in the book), from the seventeenth century to Clarke's own
time. This remains a useful source for bibliographers and those
interested in the provenance of books.
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