Nicolas Barker Boeken

Surveys the massive fifteen-million-item collection of the British Library, a collection that spans almost three thousand years of human creativity

A guide to the literature of the English-speaking world from earliest times to 1970 in a single volume. The lives of many writers are described at some length, as well as major characters, subjects, and works of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy. Illustrated. Ex-library copy with some markings. xi, iii , 992, 2 pages. cloth. large thick 8vo..