From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library - Special Issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin

W. H. Bond, Houghton Library

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This checklist of Thomas Hollis's gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Promoting civil and religious liberty, Hollis distributed books in his distinctive binding across Britain, Europe, and the American colonies. Hollis's aims for Harvard College have received careful attention from historians and bookmen, but the full extent of his donations has not been clear until now.

Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond's 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

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Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library

Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press is the publisher of such classic works as John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, E. O. Wilson's On Human Nature, and Helen Vendler's Dickinson. The Press continues to be a leading publisher of convergent works in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, while also taking bold steps in exciting new directions, from innovative partnerships, to a diverse translation program, to an expanded commitment to facilitating scholarly conversation around the globe.

Book information

ISBN:	9780976547297
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Imprint:	Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Pub date:	09 Apr 2010
DEWEY:	011.0092
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	206
Weight:	398g
Height:	227mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	13mm