The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries

by John Willis Clark

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Genres: Books About Books, History

436 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J.W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian.

Reviews

[Drew · Rating 1 out of 5]

There appear to be limits even to my book porn problem. This volume was more devoted to storage than what was stored.

[Two Readers in Love]

Read about this in Alex Johnson's "Bookshelf" design book... p. 13, "In 1901, John Willis Clark wrote about the 'ever-present need for more space to hold the invading hordes of books that represent the literature of today' in his fascinating and ground-breaking study of library fixtures and fittings, 'The Care of Books'." Downloaded from Project Gutenberg.