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LITERATURE OF LIBRARIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

EDITED BY JOHN COTTON DANA AND HENRY W. KENT

CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY 1907

A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES

An Edition of two hundred and fifty copies in this form and one of twenty-five copies on Large Paper were printed at The Merrymount Press, Boston, in May, 1907

A BRIEF OUTLINE OF

THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES

BY

JUSTUS LIPSIUS

TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND EDITION

(ANTWERP, THE PLANTIN PRESS JOHN MORETUS, 1607)

THE LAST FROM THE HAND OF THE AUTHOR

BY

JOHN COTTON DANA

CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. MDCCCCVII

COPYRIGHT, A. C. McCLURG & CO., 1907

PUBLISHED, JUNE 1, 1907

D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON

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