PROLOGUE: THE WEN

Abstract

It is not difficult to fill a chapter, and it would perhaps not be impossible to fill a book, with quotations over three centuries deploring the state of library provision in London. They begin at the latest in the mid‐seventeenth century and die out — if they die out at all — no earlier than the late 1940s. Yet how valid were these complaints, and who were the complainants?

Citation

(1984), "PROLOGUE: THE WEN", Library Review, Vol. 33 No. 2, pp. 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012764