Author : Mark Towsey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004348670
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Before the Public Library by : Mark Towsey
Download or read book Before the Public Library written by Mark Towsey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.