Melville Dewey was an American librarian,educator and inventor of the Dewey Decimal classification scheme for library classification. Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system when...
Dewey was born on 10 December 1851. His book was published before April 1876. He would have been 24 at that time.
Lydenberg, H.M. Dewey, Melvil. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles...
Dewey published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library in 1876. He had developed it while working in the library at Amherst College. It...