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Libraries Within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections
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Hardcover
With Giles Mandelbrote (other contributor) |
from British Library Board (February 28, 2010)
9780712350358 | details & prices | 448 pages | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 3.00 lbs | List price $85.00
About: The earliest libraries belonged to temples and administrative bodies, resembled our modern archives, and were usually restricted to the aristocracy, nobility, theologians, and for the use of scholars.
About: The earliest libraries belonged to temples and administrative bodies, resembled our modern archives, and were usually restricted to the aristocracy, nobility, theologians, and for the use of scholars.