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John Willis Clark
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This meticulously researched biography traces the life of the renowned geologist and scholar Adam Sedgwick, from his early years in rural Yorkshire to his career at Cambridge University. Drawing on…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Cambridge. Brief historical and descriptive notes (1890). This book, Cambridge, by John Willis Clark, is a replication of a book originally published before 1890. It has been restored by human…
First published in 1901, this is a rich repository of typefaces (including English, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew and Cyrillic), ornaments, borders and decorative devices used in books printed at…
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods; The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this…
This ambitious publication systematically catalogues and explains the wide variety of endowments received by the University of Cambridge from the thirteenth century onward. These have helped establish, improve and maintain…
This wide-ranging and approachable illustrated history describes the buildings used to store books: churches, cloisters, and purpose-built libraries; the way collections were endowed, audited and protected; the development of library…
Part of the thirteenth-century Liber Memorandorum of Barnwell, these Observances, translated and edited by J. W. Clark in 1897, are an important source for medieval and ecclesiastical historians. They explain…
John Willis Clark (1833 - 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian. Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of…
A. E. Shipley
John Willis Clark (1833-1910), biologist and architectural historian, devoted his life to the University of Cambridge. This 1913 memoir by A. E. Shipley not only records Clark’s many achievements as…
John Willis Clark (Trinity College Cambridge)
John Willis Clark (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Libraries In theMedieval and renaissance periods is the Rede Lecture, delivered on the 13th June, 1894 by John Clark, an expert in libraries, their history and archaeology, author of the…
The Care of Books is an engaging text, considering not only the preservation of books, but also their physical ordering. Clark draws on archival and archaeological sources, displaying his wide…
Robert Willis,John Willis Clark
This selection from the Architectural History presents in a single volume the complete text relating to St John’s College and features a new introduction by David Watkin, Professor Emeritus in…
Robert Willis, John Willis Clark
John Willis Clark,Robert Willis
The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton - Vol. III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886…
Robert Willis
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Robert Willis’ monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge was hailed as ‘one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever…
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This selection from the Architectural History presents in a single volume the complete text relating to Peterhouse and features a new introduction by David Watkin, Professor Emeritus in the History…
This selection from the Architectural History presents in a single volume the complete text relating to Trinity College and features a new introduction by David Watkin, Professor Emeritus in the…
This selection from the Architectural History presents in a single volume the complete text relating to King’s College and Eton College and features a new introduction by David Watkin, Professor…
A unique collection of over three hundred plans, antique and specially commissioned engravings, making this an indispensable work of reference on Cambridge architecture before the onset of the modern age…
John Willis Clark, academic and antiquarian, collected Cambridge literature of all periods and upon every subject. This catalogue, published in 1912, documents over ten thousand of Clark’s books, pamphlets and…
John Willis Clark (Trinity College Cambridge),Robert Willis
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
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John Josselin
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of…
John Josseline,John Willis Clark
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Arthur Gray, John Willis Clark
