A Book for All Readers / An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

by Ainsworth Rand Spofford

BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

A Study of the Conditions of the Production and Distribution of
Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the
Close of the Seventeenth Century.

In two volumes, 8°, cloth extra (sold separately), each $2.50
Vol. I., 476-1600—Vol. II., 1500-1709.

It is seldom that such wide learning, such historical grasp and insight, have been employed in their service.—Atlantic Monthly.

It is a book to be studied rather than merely praised. . . . That its literary style is perfect is acceptable as a matter of course, and equally of course is it that the information it contains bears the stamp of historical verification.—N. Y. Sun.