Merton College Library: An Illustrated History

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2020
Contributors Author: Julia Caroline Walworth
Language
Number of Pages
144 pp.
Publisher
Bodleian Library
City
Oxford, England
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Chronological Period
ISBN
9781851245390
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Contents: 

  • The beginnings of a library
  • Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: the new library
  • Sixteenth century: a reimagined library for a new era
  • Seventeenth century: librarians and trophy books
  • Eighteenth century: an `old ruinous place'?
  • Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a library for undergraduates and a historic monument
  • Twentieth century and beyond: heritage collections