A Catalogue Of The Allen A Brown Collection Of Books Relating To The Stage In The Public Library Of The City Of Boston

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333586331
Total Pages : 1000 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston (Classic Reprint) written by Boston Public Library and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston Among, the benefactors of the Boston Public Library, Allen A. Brown holds a unique place. Many have enriched the Library by gifts of money or books; he gave both money and books, but he gave more through more than twenty years, from the date of his first gift until a few weeks before his death, he gave himself to the Library without stint, Spending time, thought, strength, and money to perfect and complete the col lections which he had bestowed on the pe0p1e of Boston. Born in Boston, July 26, 1835, Mr. Brown was typical of the best traditions of his native city. In his Harvard days he developed an intimate devotion to music and the stage, which became a central interest in his life. He early began the ac cumulation of books in his favorite fields, and in fifty years of collecting he formed libraries of music and the drama which were finely rounded and in many features unique. On October 13, 1894, he presented to the Public Library his great collection of music and musical literature, which was housed in a special room, known as the Allen A. Brown Music Library, on the upper floor of the new building in Copley Square; his books on the history of the stage remained in his home until December, 1909, when they also were given to the Library, and assigned to a location among the treasures of the barton-ticknor Room. Mr. Brown continued to live with his books, devoting many hours each week to the arrangement of material, to the enrich ment of the volumes with illustrative matter of all sorts, and to the enlargement of the collection; before his death he had more than doubled the original Music Library, which grew under his hands from volumes in 1894 to more than in 1916. He died October 2, 1916, deeply mourned by the Library staff and by the music - lovers of Boston; his will contained provision for maintaining the steady growth of his collections. It was Mr. Brown's wish that his two gifts to the Library should be adequately catalogued, and the catalogues published. The catalogue of the Brown Music Collection was issued by the Library during the years 1908 - 16, in four volumes, the contents of which were limited to material actually belonging to the Collection. The, present catalogue of the Brown Dramatic Col lection includes with it all thew - other. Books in the Library concerning the history of the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.