Bibliomania : 150 years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library

Bibliomania : 150 years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library

150 years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library|One hundred fifty years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library

Baltimore, MD : Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2017.

xxii, 134 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., facsims. ; 30 cm.

027.7 G332 2017

(OCoLC)1004747291

Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Foreword / Winston Tabb -- Introduction: portraiture and the public research library / Earle Havens -- Old worlds, new worlds: public research libraries and cultural renewal from the Renaissance to America / Christopher Geekie -- Bibliomanias: book collecting and libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and Baltimore / Neil Weijer and Earle Havens -- Bibliomania: 150 years of collecting rare books for the George Peabody Library / Earle Havens.
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