Book Description
This 1930 volume provides a historical study of English book and manuscript collectors from 1530 until the time of publication.
Author : Seymour De Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0521156467
This 1930 volume provides a historical study of English book and manuscript collectors from 1530 until the time of publication.
Author : Seymour de Ricci
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2017-01-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780243111565
Excerpt from English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (1530-1930) And Their Marks of Ownership The present volume needs no preface. It is the exact reproduction (with a few added details and the necessary bibliographical apparatus) of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in November 1929. 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.
Author : Seymour De Ricci
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Book collecting
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher :
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN :
Author : William Younger Fletcher
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Book Collectors" by William Younger Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : William Oldys
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1808
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN :
Author : Kathryn James
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300254350
This richly illustrated book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. Offering a technical introduction to the handwriting of the period, case studies tracing the significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, and exercises to practice reading and transcription, the book opens the study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of students and scholars.
Author : William Younger 1830-1913 Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362185260
Author : William Younger Fletcher
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2016-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440075148
Excerpt from English Book Collectors My friend, Mr. Walter Stanley Graves, has in an appendix to this volume compiled a list of the principal sales of libraries in this country from an early period to the present time, which will be found to supply useful information about many of those collectors who are not otherwise mentioned in the book. 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.