Thomas Bray's Grand Design
Libraries of the Church of England in America, 1695-1785

by Charles T. Laugher

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Chicago 1973

 

CONTENTS

Introduction and Chapter 1: The Colonial Scene

Chapter 2: Thomas Bray

Chapter 3: The Design

Chapter 4: Financing the Design

Chapter 5: Securing the Design

Chapter 6: The Provincial Library

Chapter 7: Two Other Libraries

Chapter 8: The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge

Chapter 9: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Chapter 10: The Bray Associates

Chapter 11: Appraisal

Appendix, Notes, and Index