Excerpt from Biblical Libraries: A Sketch of Library History From 3400 B. C. To A. D. 150

A good deal of material on the early history of libraries has been gathered by the author of this essay during the last twenty-five years. This material is not yet ripe for systematic publication and the rapidly growing body of results from recent excavation suggests that it will be long before it is.

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