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Memoirs of Libraries Edward Edwards

Memoirs of Libraries By Edward Edwards

Memoirs of Libraries by Edward Edwards


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This monumental 1859 book describes the evolution of libraries in Britain, Europe and America from antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century. It examines numerous ecclesiastical, university and civic libraries, and concludes with the author's views on all aspects of library management, focusing particularly on the municipal libraries he fervently promoted.

Memoirs of Libraries Summary

Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards

This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.

Table of Contents

Part I. History of Libraries; Book I. The Libraries of the Ancients: 1. Introductory; 2. General view of the libraries of the ancients; 3. Passages from Greek writers relating to ancient libraries; 4. Passages from Latin writers relating to ancient libraries; 5. The destruction and dispersion of ancient libraries; and the researches after their fragments; Book II. The Libraries of the Middle Ages: 1. Foundation and growth of the monastic libraries; 2. The libraries of the English Benedictines; 3. The libraries of the German, Flemish, and Swiss Benedictines; 4. The libraries of the Italian and French Benedictines; 5. The libraries of the mendicant orders; 6. The economy of the monastic libraries; 7. Decline of learning in the monasteries; 8. The dissolution of the monasteries and dispersion of their libraries; 9. Royal, noble and plebeian collectors in the middle ages; Book III. The Modern Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: 1. Formation and growth of the several collections which eventually became the library of the British Museum; 2. Growth of the national library from the establishment of the British Museum to the acquisition of the library of King George III; 3. Progress of the national library from the acquisition of the Arundelian MSS. to the bequest of the Grenville Library, in 1846; 4. Further progress of the library of the British Museum, from the acquisition of the Syriac MSS. of St. Mary Deipara, to the opening of the central reading-room (1847-57); 5. Cursory view of the contents of the more important collections now included within the library of the British Museum; 6. The origin and growth of the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford; 7. The state and prospects of the Bodleian Library; 8. The minor university libraries, and the collegiate of Oxford; 9. The public library of the University of Cambridge; 10. The minor libraries of Cambridge; 11. The public library of Humphrey Chetham in the city of Manchester; 12. The cathedral libraries of England; 13. The archiepiscopal library at Lambeth; 14. The libraries of the English Inns of Court.

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NLS9781108010542
9781108010542
1108010547
Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2010-05-20
780
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