The Library
Subtitle: A Fragile History
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781541600775
Copyright date: 2021
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Curating the ruins; title: Part one : Inception and survival.; title: 1. A confusion of scrolls; title: 2. Sanctuary; title: 3. Little monkeys and letters of gold; title: Part two : The crisis of print.; title: 4. The infernal press; title: 5. Coming of age; title: 6. Reformations; title: Part three : The new collectors.; title: 7. The professionals; title: 8. Idle books and riff raff; title: 9. Mission fields; title: Part four : Between public and private.; title: 10. Grand designs; title: 11. Cardinal errors; title: 12. The antiquarians; title: Part five : Fictions.; title: 13. Orderly minds; title: 14. Building empires; title: 15. Reading on the job; title: Part six : The war on books.; title: 16. Surviving the twentieth century; title: 17. Wrestling with modernity; title: 18. Libraries, books and politics; title: Postscript : Reading without books