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Shores, Louis. ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1638-1800

Boston: Gregg Press, 1972, 8vo., cloth. xi, 290 pages. Reprint of the 1935 first edition. A fine copy of this uncommon title. A study of the rise, growth and administration of the college library during the Pre-Revolutionary Period, and an evaluation of its contribution to Colonial higher education. The libraries under consideration are primarily those…