Records of reading
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
We recently acquired two very different manuscript library catalogs: one, a list of books purchased for the Reading Society, Benevolent Society, and Sunday School of Bury, Lancashire from 1806-1826, and the second, the catalogue of the Dundas family’s private library at Melville Castle near Edinburgh, compiled in 1862. Library catalogs often can be much more [...]