The chained library : a survey of four centuries in the evolution of the English library / by Burnett Hillman Streeter (Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, Canon of Hereford, Fellow of the British Academy, Hon. D.D. Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester) ; with ninety-three illustrations and plans.

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Streeter, Burnett Hillman, 1874-1937, author.

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Publication:

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931.

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xxi, 368 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Library evolution -- Hereford -- Nine Oxford libraries -- Five seventeenth-century libraries -- Grammar school and parish church libraries -- More about Hereford -- appendix I. The chained library, Enkhuizen -- appendix II. The Winchester chains -- appendix III. A letter of Archbishop Parker -- appendix IV. An Elizabethan library stature.

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Table of contents

Subject:

Libraries Great Britain History.
Libraries Security measures Great Britain.
Chained books.
Bibliothèques Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Bibliothèques Sécurité Mesures Grande-Bretagne.
Livres enchaînés.
chained bindings.
Libraries.
Libraries Security measures.
Great Britain.
Libraries Great Britain

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History.

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Location: Library main 67423
Call No.: ID:85-B9990
Status: Available

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