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The acquisition of books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700 /
Chetham's Library, Manchester, was founded in 1655 by the bequest of the Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653). Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book is a detailed study of the way in which an early modern provincial library was created, stocked with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
16. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Chetham's Library, Manchester, was founded in 1655 by the bequest of the Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653). Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book is a detailed study of the way in which an early modern provincial library was created, stocked with books and administered. Using extensive archival research into the Library's acquisitions and the trade in books and ideas in the later seventeenth century, Yeo examines the motivations behind the Library's foundation, the beliefs of those responsible for the selection of books and the Library's relatio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004210202 9004210202 1283161842 9781283161848 |
| ISSN: | 1874-4834 ; |