A comprehensive guide to writers and their works which helps people understand where the books they read belong in the history and development of literature, see how they work technically, and appreciate them more fully.
A comprehensive guide to writers and their works which helps people understand where the books they read belong in the history and development of lite...
Philip Gaskell (1926 2001) acknowledges in his Preface that 'one period in the history of one college library may not seem much of a subject for a book', but, as his 1980 study shows, Trinity College Library has a history well worth investigating. Gaskell, a former Librarian and Fellow of Trinity College, details how this library grew from small beginnings in the mid-sixteenth century into arguably the greatest of all Oxford and Cambridge college libraries. He links the growth of the library to the intellectual life of the college at that time, outlining the achievements of a number of...
Philip Gaskell (1926 2001) acknowledges in his Preface that 'one period in the history of one college library may not seem much of a subject for a boo...
