The Care of Books, an Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings from the Earliest Times to the End of the 18th Century

by John Willis Clark (creator)

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Genres: Books About Books, History

454 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.