From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning - Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library

Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9765472-9-7
Verlag: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Harvard Library Bulletin

This checklist of Thomas Hollis’s gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Promoting civil and religious liberty, Hollis distributed books in his distinctive binding across Britain, Europe, and the American colonies. Hollis’s aims for Harvard College have received careful attention from historians and bookmen, but the full extent of his donations has not been clear until now.

Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond’s 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, William H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Reddick, Allen

Stoneman, William P.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Über Autor(innen)

Bond, William H.
William H. Bond was Librarian of Houghton Library, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Stoneman, William P.
William P. Stoneman is Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Reddick, Allen
Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich.