Before the public library : : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 / / edited by Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word, Volume 61
• TeilnehmendeR: Towsey, Mark R. M.,; Roberts, Kyle B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 61.; Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 pages) :; illustrations.

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries w...