Abstract
During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries many of the key issues in book selection which still occupy our attention today were discussed by librarians and other scholars concerned with the rational development of library collections for research or instruction. Each successive generation of librarians, building on the experience of its predecessors, formulated principles of selection and of practice that were widely disseminated through its writings. By the end of this period a body of literature had been developed that has helped shape the growth of scholarly libraries to our own day.
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