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Occasionally discovered gems of library description or administration ephemera.

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  • Cover of: Carlyle and the London Library: Account of Its Foundation: Together with ...

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  • Cover of: Finding List of the ... Library, 1893

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  • Cover of: Boston's special libraries

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  • Cover of: Proceedings.

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  • Cover of: 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.

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  • Cover of: Bibliomania in the Middle Ages: or, Sketches of bookworms, collectors, Bible students, scribes, and illustrators from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods to the introduction of printing into England, with anecdotes, illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain in the olden time

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  • Cover of: Public libraries and literary culture in ancient Rome

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  • Cover of: The vanished library: A Wonder of the Ancient World

    Cover of edition vanishedlibrary00canf Cover of edition vanishedlibraryw00canf_679 First published in 1989 — 8 editions work
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  • Cover of: The libraries of London: a guide for students.

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  • Cover of: The old librarian's almanack

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  • Cover of: A manual of bibliography: being an introduction to the knowledge of books, library management and the art of cataloguing, with a list of bibliographical works of reference, a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of ancient printing centres, and a glossary.

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  • Cover of: Handy-book of literary curiosities

    Cover of edition handybookofliter00walsiala Cover of edition handybooklitera01walsgoog Cover of edition handybooklitera04walsgoog First published in 1892 — 17 editions work
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  • Cover of: Zoia!

    First published in 1995 — 2 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Library at Night

    Cover of edition libraryatnight00mang First published in 2003 — 9 editions work
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  • Cover of: Records and record searching

    Cover of edition recordsrecordsea00ryewuoft Cover of edition recordsrecordsea00ryew First published in 1888 — 5 editions work
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  • Cover of: A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge: Edited for the Syndics of the University Press.

    Cover of edition catalogueofmanus02cambuoft Cover of edition catalogueofmanus00cambuoft Cover of edition catalogueofmanus03cambuoft Cover of edition catalogueofmanus04cambuoft Cover of edition catalogueofmanus01cambuoft Cover of edition catalogueofmanus05cambuoft First published in 1856 — 16 editions work
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  • Cover of: Guide to the research collections of the New York Public Library

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History

July 14, 2011 Edited by George updated list seeds.
July 5, 2011 Edited by George updated list seeds.
July 5, 2011 Edited by George updated list seeds.
March 18, 2011 Edited by George updated list seeds.
September 30, 2010 Created by George Created new list.