Richard Garnett spent his career at the British Museum, and these occasional papers record his campaign to bring scientific method to libraries. He addresses the Library Association, argues for printing the Museum’s great catalogue as the basis of a universal one, and wanders into the arrival of European printing in the East and the bibliography of Paraguay and Argentina.
A learned and often witty insider’s view of Victorian librarianship, for book historians and lovers of libraries. Download the free EPUB.