Libraries and Founders of LibrariesCambridge University Press, 2010 - 540 pagine This comprehensive volume, first published in 1864, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the nineteenth century, principally in England but also further afield. The author was an influential figure in the founding of municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. He emphasises the importance of individual collectors in the building of great libraries, and examines the personal holdings of many writers and scholars as well as members of royal families, the aristocracy, and clergy. Some of these are well known, others less commonly encountered in surveys of library history. Edwards also discusses the subsequent history of these collections, their dispersal or incorporation into other libraries. Other important topics covered by Edwards include the development and organisation of the State Paper Office and Public Records Office from the medieval period onwards. |
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CHAPTER I | 3 |
LIBRARIES OF THE HEBREWS | 9 |
THE LIBRARY OF THE KINGS OF PERGAMUS | 19 |
OF SOME LIBRARIES OF MONASTERIES | 28 |
viii | 36 |
VISITS TO MONTE CASSINO OF BOCCACCIO OF MABILLON AND | 45 |
CHAPTER IV | 53 |
CHAPTER V | 59 |
BURNING OF THE SIX CLERKS OFFICE | 248 |
THE LIFE AND LITERARY WORKS OF PRYNNE | 254 |
CONTRASTS IN THE LITERARY ESTIMATE OF THE MIDDLE AGES | 255 |
HIS LAST WORKS AND HIS DEATH | 262 |
THE PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES OF 1719 AND 1731 | 268 |
THE SUGGESTED MEASURES OF IMPROVEMENT | 274 |
THE PRODUCTIONS AND THE OVERSIGHTS OF THE EARLY COMMISSIONS | 276 |
CALEYS MANAGEMENT OF THE RECORDS | 283 |
PAGE | 71 |
CHAPTER VI | 101 |
OF ENGLAND AS A COLLECTOR | 107 |
LIBRARY OF LEWIS II DE BOURBON PRINCE OF CONDÉ | 111 |
LITERARY CHARACTER OF FREDERICK THE GREAT | 117 |
COMPARISON OF FREDERICK AND NAPOLEON IN REGARD TO THEIR | 123 |
NAPOLEONS LIBRARY IN EGYPT | 130 |
THE LIBRARIES AT BRIARS AND AT LONGWOOD | 137 |
CHAPTER VII | 143 |
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES OF HENRY VII | 150 |
LORD SUNDERLANDS COMMISSIONERSHIP FOR THE UNION WITH | 151 |
DEES SCHEME OF A ROYAL LIBRARY ADDRESSED TO QUEEN MARY | 159 |
THE ROYAL LIBRARY UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST GIFT OF | 166 |
MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS OF JOHN COLLINS THE FRIEND | 177 |
PAGE | 181 |
CLASSIFICATION OF THE STATE PAPERS | 184 |
THE DISPERSED PAPERS OF SECRETARY NICHOLAS | 190 |
xviii | 197 |
HIS REPORTS ON ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONS | 206 |
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS | 246 |
THEIR EDITING AND COST | 289 |
RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE COMMISSIONERS REPORT OF 1837 | 295 |
HIS REGULATION OF THE FEES OF THE RECORD OFFICERS | 301 |
NOTE ON THE LIBRARY OF KING EDWARD | 318 |
CHAPTER X | 327 |
LORD MACCLESFIELD A LIBERAL PROMOTER OF GOOD LITERATURE | 334 |
HIS CONVERSATION WITH KING JAMES THE SECOND AT THORIGNY | 340 |
THE WELSH MANUSCRIPTS AT SHIRBURN | 349 |
MEDIEVAL CHRONICLEKS | 355 |
PRINTED TRACTS ON THE WELSH LANGUAGE | 361 |
THE SHIRBURN CAXTONS | 367 |
GROWTH AND PROGRESS OF THE SUNDERLAND LIBRARY | 379 |
CHAPTER XII | 392 |
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REVICZKY LIBRARY ACQUIRED | 403 |
CONSPICUOUS SERVICES RENDERED TO LITERATURE BY THE SPENCER | 409 |
NOTICES OF HIS LIFE EDUCATION AND EARLY WRITINGS | 420 |
THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE ALTHORP LIBRARY IN 1811 | 426 |
CHARACTER OF THE CLOSING YEARS AND LAST SCENE | 445 |
TABLE THE SECOND SYNOPTICAL | 460 |
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