“From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning” - Thomas Hollis’s Gifts to the Harvard College Library

Summary

This checklist of Thomas Hollis’s gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond’s 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

Product details

• Authors: William H Bond, William H. Bond
• Publisher: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780976547297
• ISBN: 978-0-9765472-9-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 227 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Illustrations: 8 halftones
• Series: Harvard Library Bulletin; Houghton Library Publications; Harvard Library Bulletin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works