The library
Subtitle: an illustrated history
By: Stuart A.P. Murray ; introduction by Donald G. Davis, Jr. ; foreword by Nicholas Basbanes.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781602397064
Subjects: Libraries -- History; Libraries -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The ancient libraries; title: European libraries of the Middle Ages; title: Asia and Islam; title: Europe's high Middle Ages; title: Renaissance to Reformation; title: People of the book; title: War and a golden age; title: The library in colonial North America; title: The library in the young United States; title: Libraries across America; title: Private and public libraries; title: Modern libraries.