CHAPTER XIV
Bibliography
This bibliography is not intended as an introduction for specialists but, first for those who may be interested to read more details in English and second for the average scholarly reader who may like to follow up references and authorities which—references have been freely omitted in the text, with this bibliographical chapter in view. It is a sort of first aid to the interested and is only remotely related to the "lists of authorities consulted" sometimes given with treatises.
For first orientation on the general subject take the excellent Britannica article by Tedder and Brown, Clark's Care of Books 1909, Edwards' Memoirs of Libraries 1859, all, however, rather meagre on pre-Greek period and best supplemented in English, for Babylonian Libraries, by Morris Jastrow, Jr. s article, Did the Babylonian Temples have libraries (Amer. Oriental Society, I. 27, 1906, pp. 147-82), King's Sumer and
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