id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10500 Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut The Books of the Ancients (Book Reviews) 1949-10-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2284 106 60 He has divided his material into a few well-organized chapters on the dis- coveries of ancient books, physical character- istics, the book trades of Greece and Rome, bookshops in both these cultures, and a chap- ter on ancient libraries-both private and public. It seems to me doubtful whether anyone could build up a coherent, reasonably complete pic- ture of the world of ancient books without consulting the studies of Birt, Sir E. M. Thompson, Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, Schubart, Wattenbach and the many other authorities in the field, and I am sure Mr. Pinner knows their work. cache/crl-10500.pdf txt/crl-10500.txt