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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Yeo, Matthew.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Library of the written word ; 16.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 10.
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