Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree

3.83/5 (1235 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident.

In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts.

Format:

Pages:: 518 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1788163427

ISBN13:: 9781788163422

kindle Asin:: B097MHLTJV

The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree

3.83/5 (1235 ratings)

Read Download

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident.

In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts.

Format:

Pages:: 518 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1788163427

ISBN13:: 9781788163422

kindle Asin:: B097MHLTJV

More Books

The Secret Library

Oliver Tearle

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

Emma Smith

Silk: A World History

Aarathi Prasad

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

Adam Smyth

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Jack Hartnell

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Harvey Whitehouse

Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Earl Swift

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

Edward Brooke-Hitching