Raymond Irwin

The English Library

Sources and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1966, this book studied the background against which libraries in England have developed since classical times and the part they played in the formation of 20th Century bibliographic culture and bibliomania.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9781032162119
• ISBN-10: 1032162112
• Artikelnr.: 69030232

Autorenporträt

Raymond Irwin directed the University College London School of Library, Archive and Information Studies from 1945 until 1969.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Introduction 2. Callimachus and the Alexandrian Library 3. The
Byzantine Age 4. Seneca 5. In Roman Britain 6. In Saxon Britain 67
Colonnade and Cloister 8. The Dispersal 8. Physical Handicaps 10. Gabriel
Naudé and the Problems of Mass Production Part 2: The English Domestic
Library 11. The Beginnings 12. From Sir Thomas More to Samuel Pepys
12. From Samuel Pepys to Dr. Johnson 13. The Infectious Habit 19. The
Nineteenth Century.