Excerpt from The Story of Libraries and Book-Collecting
Readers, especially if they be librarians, will look for an apology from a writer who dares to follow in the footsteps of Edward Edwards. But there is some justification. Memoirs of Libraries is out of print, and expensive to buy second-hand; while in some parts it is not up to date. A summary history, published at a popular price, seemed necessary for the elementary student and the general reader, and I have attempted to provide it.
In comparison with other books on the same subject this essay will appear to cover the ground somewhat disproportionately. But the first period has been treated with some fulness, because, owing to the small number of libraries then existing, and their grouping into centres whence their influence could be clearly traced, it seemed possible to show more clearly the connexion between libraries and the progress of scholarship than in the modern period, when libraries were common, and books more varied in character and much more numerous.
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