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Text extracted from 1st pages: BOOKS & READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE & ROME by FREDERIC G. KENYON Late Director & Principal Librarian of the British Museum OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1932 PREFACE: "This book is the outcome of a course of three lectures which I was invited by the University of London to deliver at King's College in March 1932. The material has been slightly expanded, but the general scale of treatment has not been altered. It does not claim to replace the standard works on ancient book-production, but to supplement them, & that especially with regard to the period during which papyrus was the principal material in use. It is in respect of this period that our knowledge has increased in the course of the last two generations. The object of this book is to bring together and make available for students the results of these discoveries. In particular, use has been made of the remarkable collection of papyrus codices recently acquired by Mr. A. Chester Beatty, which has greatly extended our knowledge of this transitional form of book, which appears to have had a special vogue among the Christian community in Egypt. Altho the subject of the book is primarily bibliographic

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Author

Frederic G. Kenyon, Frederic George Kenyon

Publisher

At the Clarendon Press

Published

1951

Language

EN

ISBN

9780890053409

Category

history

Subjects

Computer Science, History, Ancient History