Books in Manuscript : A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records.

Madan, F. ; Pennell, J.

Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, first edition, large-paper copy, 1893, 1893

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Large-paper edition of 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. Full navy morocco, gilt spine-titles, gilt filet on board edges, elaborate leather doublures with silk flyleaves, top edge gilt, (bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery), 8vo, 22 cm, xv, 188 pp, viii leaves of plates. Contents: I. Introductory; II. Materials for writing, and forms of books; III. The history of writing; IV. Scribes and their ways; V. Illuminations; VI. The blunders of scribes and their correction; VII. Famous libraries; VIII. Famous manuscripts; IX. Literary forgeries; X. Treatment and cataloguing of manuscripts; XI. Public and private records; Appendices: A. Public libraries which contain more than four thousand manuscripts. B. List of printed catalogues of manuscripts in European languages in the British Museum, Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, etc. C. Some books useful for the study of manuscripts. Copy No.89. Leather booklabel on inside front board of Carl Adolph Kroch, sometime head of Kroch's and Brentano's, for a long time the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the USA. Front joint worn and slightly tender, rear joint slightly rubbed, contents Very Good.

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• Title: Books in Manuscript : A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records.
• Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, first edition, large-paper copy, 1893
• Publication Date: 1893
• Binding: Hardcover
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