brick-libraries

Updated: January 27, 2026

We have seen the brick-libraries of Nineveh and the copies for the King at Babylon, and we have heard of the rolls of Ecbatana. All the world knows how Nehemiah 'founded a library, and how the brave Maccabæus gathered again what had been lost by reason of the wars.

Charles Isaac Elton - The Great Book-Collectors