LITERATURE OF LIBRARIES
SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Edited by John Cotton Dana, Librarian of the Free Public Library, Newark, New Jersey; and Henry W. Kent, Librarian of the Grolier Club, New York City.
1. COTTON DES HOUSSAYES, JEAN BAPTISTE
(1727-1783).
Concerning the Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian
(Des Devoirs et de Qualities du Bibliothecaire).
2. DURY, JOHN (DURIE) (1596-1680).
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper. London, 1650.
3. KIRKWOOD, REV. JAMES (1650?-1708).
An Overture for founding and maintaining of Bibliothecks
in every Paroch throughout this Kingdom. [Edinburgh],
1699.
4. BODLEY, SIR THOMAS (1545-1613).
Life, written by himself, 1609; with his First Draught
of the Statutes of the Public Library at Oxford. (From
Reliquiae Bodleianae, 1703.)
5. LIPSIUS, JUSTUS (1547-1606).
De Bibliothecis Syntagma. Antwerp, 1602. Translated
into English for this series.
6. NAUDÉ, GABRIEL (1600-1653).
News from France; or, A Description of the Library of
Cardinal Mazarini (London, 1652), and, The Surrender of
the Library of Cardinal Mazarin.
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Transcriber’s Notes
On page 46, “reestablished” was replaced by “reëstablished”, reflecting the predominant spelling in the text. Otherwise, original spelling and punctuation has been retained.
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