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London : HMSO, (1991). First edition. A full-scale history, by one of its most distinguished archivists, of the keeping of the “people’s evidences”, from the founding of the PRO in 1838 and the absorption of the State Paper Office in 1854, to becoming “the greatest store of material that has ever been gathered in one place”.
Royal 8vo (26cm). [2],(xii),(632)pp. Plates (two coloured). Portraits. Original cloth; just faintly bruised, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

£40

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Dublin : Irish Academic Press, (1998). First edition. A detailed and well-illustrated study of the eighty Irish libraries (sixty-two of which survive) founded through the benevolence of Andrew Carnegie, with pictures, plans, etc., and introductory material on Carnegie, James Bertram (his private secretary), the library movement in Ireland, planning, equipment, management, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xii),278,[vi]pp. Numerous illustrations, plans, etc. Original boards; very good indeed in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£50

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1990). First edition. A detailed reconstruction of the library of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), historical scholar, antiquary, and book-collector. Korsten was able to trace the current location of forty-three per cent of the 4,290 items described.
Crown 4to (26cm). [2],l,426,[ii]pp. Original red cloth; a very good copy.

£40

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Hamden (CT) : Linnet Books / London : Clive Bingley, 1981 First edition. The painful and sometimes bitter genesis of the first National Library Catalogue – Panizzi, Edward Bond, Richard Garnett, Gladstone and Disraeli as trustees, the Civil Service, the Treasury, etc. – “not only an important chapter in library and publishing history, but also in the intellectual history of the late nineteenth century”.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 186,[vi]pp. Original cloth; very good in an unworn but somewhat spotted dust-jacket.

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London : Mudie’s Select Library, 1927. First and seemingly the only edition of the Mudie’s “Foreign” catalogue to include the library’s holdings in Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish books to the already extensive collections in French, German and Italian, which had warranted their own catalogue since 1888.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [xvi],974,[ii]pp. Portrait frontispiece and view of the main library. Original cloth gilt; lightly rubbed and slightly marked; spine gilt somewhat dulled; sticker noting changes to subscription rates pasted in; a good and serviceable copy. Neat contemporary ownership inscription.

£50

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London : Library Association, 1966. First edition under this title : an expanded and augmented version of the same author’s earlier “A Mirror for Librarians” (1948) and “Classics of Librarianship” (1957). An extensive selection of substantial extracts from the writings of the outstanding and innovative librarians of the past – from Alcuin of York, via Sir Thomas Bodley, Sir Anthony Panizzi and Melvil Dewey to William John Bishop. With biographical introductions, plates, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 408pp. Twenty plates. Original cloth; very good in a lightly used, rubbed and nicked dust-jacket.

£25

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