Memoirs of libraries : including a handbook of library economy

Author(s)

• Edwards, Edward

Bibliographic Information

Memoirs of libraries : including a handbook of library economy

by Edward Edwards

（Cambridge library collection）

Cambridge University Press, 2010

• v. 1 : pbk.
• v. 2 : pbk.
• v. 3 : pbk.

Note

Degitally printed version.

First published 1859

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : pbk. ISBN 9781108010542

Description

This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.

Table of Contents

• Part I. History of Libraries
• Book I. The Libraries of the Ancients: 1. Introductory
• 2. General view of the libraries of the ancients
• 3. Passages from Greek writers relating to ancient libraries
• 4. Passages from Latin writers relating to ancient libraries
• 5. The destruction and dispersion of ancient libraries
• and the researches after their fragments
• Book II. The Libraries of the Middle Ages: 1. Foundation and growth of the monastic libraries
• 2. The libraries of the English Benedictines
• 3. The libraries of the German, Flemish, and Swiss Benedictines
• 4. The libraries of the Italian and French Benedictines
• 5. The libraries of the mendicant orders
• 6. The economy of the monastic libraries
• 7. Decline of learning in the monasteries
• 8. The dissolution of the monasteries and dispersion of their libraries
• 9. Royal, noble and plebeian collectors in the middle ages
• Book III. The Modern Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: 1. Formation and growth of the several collections which eventually became the library of the British Museum
• 2. Growth of the national library from the establishment of the British Museum to the acquisition of the library of King George III
• 3. Progress of the national library from the acquisition of the Arundelian MSS. to the bequest of the Grenville Library, in 1846
• 4. Further progress of the library of the British Museum, from the acquisition of the Syriac MSS. of St. Mary Deipara, to the opening of the central reading-room (1847-57)
• 5. Cursory view of the contents of the more important collections now included within the library of the British Museum
• 6. The origin and growth of the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford
• 7. The state and prospects of the Bodleian Library
• 8. The minor university libraries, and the collegiate of Oxford
• 9. The public library of the University of Cambridge
• 10. The minor libraries of Cambridge
• 11. The public library of Humphrey Chetham in the city of Manchester
• 12. The cathedral libraries of England
• 13. The archiepiscopal library at Lambeth
• 14. The libraries of the English Inns of Court.

Volume

v. 2 : pbk. ISBN 9781108010559

Description

This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.

Table of Contents

• Part I. History of Libraries (continued): Book III (continued): 15. The older libraries of English towns, and their management by municipal corporations
• 16. The parochial and quasi-parochial libraries of England
• 17. The history of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855
• 18. The working of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855
• Appendix. Book 3: 19. The libraries of the Faculty of Advocates, and of the Writers to the Signet, at Edinburgh
• 20. The university and town libraries of Scotland
• 21. The library of Trinity College, Dublin, and some of the other Irish libraries
• 22. The minor libraries of London
• 23. British private libraries which have been dispersed
• 24. Notices of some existing British private libraries
• Book IV. The Libraries of the United States of America: 1. The collegiate libraries of the United States
• 2. The proprietary and subscription libraries of the United States
• 3. The Congressional and state libraries of the United States
• 4. The town libraries of the United States
• 5. The Smithsonian Institution at Washington
• 6. The public school and district libraries of the United States
• Book V. The Modern Libraries of Continental Europe
• 1. The imperial library of France
• 2. The minor libraries of Paris
• 3. The provincial libraries of France
• 4. The libraries of Italy
• 5. The royal and metropolitan libraries of Germany
• 6. The town libraries of Germany
• 7. The university libraries of Germany, Moravia, and Gallicia
• 8. The libraries of Holland, Switzerland and Belgium
• 9. The libraries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway
• 10. The libraries of Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, and Russia
• 11. The libraries of Spain and Portugal
• 12. Past, present, and future.

Volume

v. 3 : pbk. ISBN 9781108012218

Description

This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. This final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.

Table of Contents

• Part II. Economy of Libraries
• Book I. Book Collecting: 1. Rudiments of book-collecting, with especial reference to public libraries
• 2. Copy-tax
• 3. Gifts
• 4. Public historiography and public printing
• 5. International exchanges
• 6. Purchases
• Book II. Buildings: 1. Libraries built
• 2. Libraries projected
• 3. Hints and deductions
• 4. Fittings and furniture
• Book III. Classification and Catalogues: 1. Catalogues in general
• 2. Classificatory schemes
• 3. Difficulties, rules, and details
• 4. To print, or not to print?
• 5. Examples and estimates
• 6. Local arrangement, and its appliances
• Book IV. Internal Administration and Public Service: 1. Librarianship
• 2. Boards of management, town councils, and central inspection
• 3. Internal administration
• 4. Bookbinding
• 5. Public access
• 6. The regulation of reading rooms, with especial reference to town libraries, supported under Ewart's Act
• 7. The regulation of lending libraries
• 8. Recapitulation
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BB02208841
• ISBN:
  • 9781108010542
  • 9781108010559
  • 9781108012218
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englatgrc
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00083053