The English Library

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.

Auteur

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

Contenu

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.