By Giles Mandelbrote, K. A. Manley
A heritage of Libraries in Britain and eire describes the improvement of libraries in nice Britain and eire over a few 1500 years, and their position as part of the social, highbrow and cultural heritage. as well as visible hyperlinks with the heritage of books and literature, the volumes comprise attention of schooling, know-how, social philosophy, structure and the humanities, as they've got affected libraries. the numerous overseas measurement, which has affected British and Irish libraries from the center a long time to the current, gets due consciousness. different issues thought of in every one quantity contain the housing, garage and upkeep of books and different fabric; the contributors answerable for their care and people who used them; advancements in provision, association and cataloguing; and the rules and attitudes - of librarians and clients - which such advancements mirror. 
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1, 16–17. 38 Evelyn to Clarendon, 27 Nov. 1666, in his Diary and correspondence, ed. H. B. Wheatley (London, 1906), vol. 3, 346–8. 39 Keynes, John Evelyn, 14–17, Evelyn’s library was finally dispersed and sold at Christie’s in 1977–8. 40 The unfinished tract is given in Evelyn’s Memoirs, ed. W. Bray, 2 vols. (London, 1818), 333–48. One should not, he remarks there of the search, ‘disclaime the rummaging sometimes of the most neglected corners of Shops, and other obscure places, however cover’d with dust and cobwebs’.
Moss, Printed commonplace-books and the structuring of renaissance thought (Oxford, 1996). 11 A brief discourse concerning the accomplishment of our Reformation (1647), in C. ), Samuel Hartlib and the advancement of learning (Cambridge, 1970), 131. 12 And what better location for the Office than Oxford? 14 Hartlib’s aide-de-camp, John Dury, was keeper of books and medals of the Royal Library at St James’s Palace from 1650 to 1652. In 1650, Hartlib printed a memorandum by Dury on the role of the library as a centre of ‘intelligence’ – described by Hartlib as among ‘the fruits of som of my Solicitations and Negotiations for the advancement of Learning’.
Petty outlined a scheme for a college intended to address some of the lacunae in contemporary intellectual institutions which 6 F. Bacon, New Atlantis, in Works, vol. 1, 164. 7 Bacon’s account of historia litterarum is much longer and more detailed in the De augmentis scientiarum than it is in the Advancement. Cf. Bacon, Advancement, in Works, vol. 3, 330; De augmentis scientiarum, in Works, vol. 1, 503. 8 See in general C. Webster, The great instauration: science, medicine and reform 1 626–1 660 (London, 1975); G.
