Libraries and founders of libraries.
By: By Edward Edwards.
Publisher: Trübner and co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Libraries -- History; Private libraries; Book collectors; Manuscripts -- Great Britain; Archives -- Great Britain
Notes: "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.