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Libraries in the ancient world

by Lionel Casson

This history examines ancient libraries from the early clay tablets of the Near East to early Christian monastic collections. It traces the development of library architecture and the systems devised to organise and store books in Greece and Rome.

Accession 9295 ISBN 0300088094 Publisher Yale University Press
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