The Library: A Fragile History

ISBN-13: 9781788163439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Andrew Pettegree

Opis

Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google

Recenzje

[In] this superb history, filled with fascinating details that will delight every bibliophile, the authors tell the rich and varied history of libraries, from those that aspire to collect the sum of human knowledge to modest but valued personal collections Guardian

O autorze

Arthur De Weduwen is associate editor of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. This is his fifth book. Andrew Pettegree, FBA, is one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is the author of The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (winner of the Goldsmith Prize) and Brand Luther: 1517, Printing and the making of the Reformation, among other publications.