Strictly Legal: How a Nineteenth Century Bookseller Influenced the Collection of a Supreme Court Library in Surprising Ways.
In 1853, the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria (in Melbourne, Australia) was founded with the brief that it would provide the "primary necessities ... for reference and research in law". By 1875, the intention of the library had broadened to include items aimed at providing a "course of liber...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 65 - 76 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2013
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