The Great Book-Collectors

The Great Book-Collectors was an 1893 book by British authors Charles Elton and Mary Augusta Elton. It deals with bibliophilia and bibliomania.

The book is generally available online rather than in original in major collections.[1][2]

Connection with major collections

The book describes in detail the circumstances behind the creation of the following institutions:

Reception

The book remains an invaluable source of information on the transition from manuscripts to books that occurred in the Middle Ages.

The book is in the public domain in the United States and is available online.[3][4][5][6][7]

gollark: Air travel is waaaay better than anything else for quite a lot of journeys, and trains, while sort of better, don't get implemented many places.
gollark: It's a shame that suborbital rocket travel is still so expensive.
gollark: And my stuff gets X-rayed, which is probably not very good for it.
gollark: no.
gollark: And the liquid rules are pretty bizarre.

References
  1. Elton, Charles Isaac, The great book-collectors (Large paper ed.), b K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, retrieved 25 October 2016
  2. Charles Isaac Elton; Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914; Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (1893), The great book-collectors, London K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd, retrieved 25 October 2016CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Elton, Charles Isaac, 1839–1900 (1893), The great book-collectors / by Charles Isaac Elton & Mary Augusta Elton, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd, retrieved 25 October 2016CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Project Gutenberg
  5. Project Gutenberg
  6. Internet Archive
  7. Google Books
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