Richard Garnett : the scholar as librarian / Barbara McCrimmon.

Main entry:

McCrimmon, Barbara, author.

Title & Author:

Richard Garnett : the scholar as librarian / Barbara McCrimmon.

Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, 1989.

Description:

xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

ACRL publications in librarianship ; no. 46

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Key to abbreviations -- Richard Garnett the elder, 1789-1850 -- Young man in London, 1851-1854 -- Journalists, 1855-1857 -- Author and editor, 1858-1859 -- Shelley Scholar, 1860-1861 -- Year of fate, 1862 -- Married life, 1863-1867 -- New family, new friends, 1868-1870 -- Much ado about Shelley, 1871-1874 -- Portrait interlude -- Assistant keeper of printed books, 1875-1878 -- Dr. Richard Garnett, 1879-1884 -- More Shelley, 1885-1887 -- The twilight of the gods, 1888-1889 -- Keeper of printed books, 1890-1892 -- Poems and problems, 1893-1894 -- Richard Garnett, C.B., LL. D., 1895 -- The old order changeth, 1896-1898 -- A new century, 1899-1900 -- Journeys and publications, 1901-1902 -- An ending and a beginning, 1903-1905 -- Finale, 1906.
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Summary:

On a man whose life spanned the Victorian period and who, from mid-century, was part of the British literary, as well as library, scene.

ISBN:

0838905080 (alk. paper)
9780838905081 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
British Library. Department of Printed Books History.
British Library. Department of Printed Books.
British Museum. Department of Printed Books History.
British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books History.
British Library. Department of Printed Books Histoire.
British Library. Dept. of Printed Books History.
Librarians Great Britain Biography.
Literary historians Great Britain Biography.
Bibliothécaires Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Historiens de la littérature Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Intellectual life.
Librarians.
Literary historians.
Bibliothecarissen.
London (England) Intellectual life 19th century.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
England London.
Great Britain.
Librarianship.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Norman D. Stevens Collection of Library Architecture
ACRL publications in librarianship ; no. 46.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180467
Call No.: ID Z674.A75; ID:98-B857
Status: Available

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