The Empire Strikes Back by Brian Daley

The Empire Strikes Back by Brian Daley

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.

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ISBN 13	9780345396051
ISBN 10	0345396057
Titel	The Empire Strikes Back
Autor	Brian Daley
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-05-23
Seitenanzahl	309
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.