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GENERAL EDITOR: J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.
OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIES
ABBOT WHETHAMSTEDE
OLD ENGLISH
LIBRARIES
THE MAKING, COLLECTION, AND USE OF BOOKS
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
BY
ERNEST A. SAVAGE
WITH FIFTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published in 1911
PREFACE
WITH the arrangement and equipment of libraries this essay has little todo: the ground being already covered adequately by Dr. Clark in hisadmirable monograph on The Care of Books. Herein is described themaking, use, and circulation of books considered as a means of literaryculture. It seemed possible to throw a useful sidelight on literaryhistory, and to introduce some human interest into the study ofbibliography, if the place held by books in the life of the Middle Agescou