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From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning
William H. Bond
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Hardcover.
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. Promoting civil and religious liberty, Hollis distributed books in his distinctive binding across Britain, Europe, and the American colonies. Hollis’s aims for Harvard College have received careful attention from historians and bookmen, but the full extent of his donations has not been clear until now.
Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond’s 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780976547297
SKU
V9780976547297
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About William H. Bond
William H. Bond was Librarian of Houghton Library, Emeritus, Harvard University. Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich. William P. Stoneman is Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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