The Care of Books

An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

By:

John Willis Clark

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

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John Willis Clark, a noted academic and antiquarian, published this book in 1901 after completing his work on the architectural history of Cambridge. His carefully researched study (Clark personally visited and measured every building he described, and drew many of the illustrations), provides a wide-ranging account of the history of libraries from antiquity to the early modern period. Clark describes the buildings used to store books: churches, cloisters, and purpose-built libraries; the way collections were endowed, audited and protected; the development of library furniture, including lecterns, stalls, chaining systems and wall-cases; and the characteristics of monastic, collegiate, and private collections. The book is generously illustrated, and its approachable style means it will appeal not only to academic historians of libraries, but to a wider audience of those interested in books and reading culture, historic buildings and artefacts, and medieval, renaissance and early modern studies.

Release date Australia

July 20th, 2009

Author

John Willis Clark

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

97 Halftones, black and white; 67 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

488

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

Dimensions

170x244x25

ISBN-13

9781108005081

Product ID

3212418

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