Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections - Hardcover
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.
Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. This collection of original essays explores some of the most important printed collections which have been brought together within the British Museum Library since its foundation in 1753, casting new light on the individuals whose personal interests and taste they reflect. Ranging from the library of Henry VIII to Sir Joseph Banks, and from Sir Hans Sloane to George III, this volume also acts as a handbook to provenance within the British Library collections, providing guidance on the interpretation of marks of ownership, stamps, shelfmarks and other forms of evidence to be found in particular copies."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Giles Mandelbrote is curator of British Collections, 1501–1800 at the British Library and joint editor of The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Volume II: 1640–1850. Barry Taylor is curator of Hispanic Printed Collections, 1501–1850 at the British Library and editor of the Electronic British Library Journal.
"Like [George] Thomason’s collection, this book is also ‘a browser’s delight’, but it is also revealing of a new approach to librarianship and a fresh way of looking at books in a post-Google world.”—Timothy Mason, Museums Journal
(Timothy Mason Museums Journal)“[An] excellent collaborative volume.”
(Times Literary Supplement)“This is a substantial work, admirably planned and executed, valuable for the history of the British Library, of private collectors, and of collecting and scholarship.”
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- PublisherBritish Library
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0712350357
- ISBN 13 9780712350358
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
- EditorMandelbrote Giles, Taylor Barry
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Libraries within the Library: the Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections
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