The fortune of books
Subtitle: essays, memories and prophecies of a librarian
By: by J. Christian Bay.
Publisher: W. M. Hill
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Bibliography.; Library science.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Bookmen and scientists: Dr. Daniel Drake. Conrad Gesner. Claude Bernard. Jean Senebier. Robert Kennicott. Edward Everett Ayer. Dr. Christian Fenger. An idealist and his library. George Washington.; title: Library life: Inspiration through cataloguing. The sciences in the training of the librarian. Book selection for a scientific and technical reference library. The library school and library life. Personality in the library personnel. A plain slip case for books. Clement Walker Andrews.; title: Books and literary events: The origin and development of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Women not considered human beings. The Pickwick papers: some bibliographical remarks. A classical case of bibliological identification. Tom Sawyer detective; the origin of the plot. The response of science to agriculture. Scarce and beautiful imprints of Chicago. Rinaldo Rinaldini (Capo Brigante) and George Washington. A Tennyson-Browning Association copy.; title: Time and chance: Johan Gutenberg, Robert Fulton, Samuel Colt and Peter Rasmussen. Inter Arma loquantur Musae. The station master.; title: Americana: Three handfuls of western books.