Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xlii), 710 pages. First edition. PRINTED catalogueS is an important record of 17th and 18th-century books in the first printed university and public catalogue of the Harvard College Library. By 1764, the Library was considered the most substantial library in, at the time, British North America. For scholars of book history, American history and education, PRINTED catalogueS provides insight into the books of the..... READ MORE about PRINTED CATALOGUES OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1723-1790

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. 4to. cloth. xiv, 236 pages. First edition. William Alexander Jackson was considered by his colleagues to be an unrivaled bibliographical scholar. He served as the founding librarian of the famed Houghton Library at Harvard. During his tenure Jackson more than doubled the quality and quantity of the Library's collection of rare books and manuscripts. This handsome illustrated work gathers articles on Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Dibdinian Tour and 16 other..... READ MORE about RECORDS OF A BIBLIOGRAPHER, SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM ALEXANDER JACKSON

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