Before the Public Library —— Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

----- 公共图书馆之前：大西洋世界的阅读，社区和身份，1650年至1850年

ISBN: 9789004348660 出版年：2017 页码：433 Brill

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.