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Libraries and founders of libraries

by: Edwards, Edward, 1812-1886

Publication date: 1864

Topics: Libraries, Private libraries, Book collectors, Manuscripts, Archives

Publisher: London, Trübner and co.

Collection: university_pittsburgh; americana

Contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Language: English

"About thirty pages of this volume, chiefly in the introductory chapters, have been reprinted ... from the article Libraries in the last edition of the Encyclopaedia britannica ... It is at once a new and independent work, and a continuation of the preceding work on the same subject [Memoris of libraries. 1859]"

"List and description of extant catalogues of English monastic libraries, distinguishing the unprinted form the printed": p. 448-454

"Summary classification and synoptical view of the public records of the realm": p. 458-503 and 2 folded tables

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