Munby Phillipps (4 results)

Rebound in cloth, original wrappers bound-in, 8vo, 27 cm, 41 pp. Lecture. delivered in Los Angeles on March 29 and in Berkeley on April 4, 1948. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has a 1-inch tear to the bottom front edge. Protected in a mylar cover. Pages crisp and clean. #C4.

4to, 545pp., one of 250 copies, orig. cloth, d.w. A facsimile reprint of Phillipps own catalogue of manuscripts printed by him at the Middle Hill Press taken from one of only three known complete copies, a work which was stated, by Munby, to be 'possibly the rarest and most interesting example of this class of literature'.

First Edition. Totalling over 800 pages, with 41 plates (including frontispiece to each volume, one coloured), 2 full page facsimiles, genealogical table, appendices, additions and corrections to Nos. 1-IV, indices; all demy 8vo; navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt, upper boards with blind rule border, a couple of tiny edge bruises, small surface graze to bottom edge of upper board Number II; dust wrappers, slightly soiled or browned, all but one price-clipped, the edges sometimes lightly rubbed and/or chipped; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, a little light foxing; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1951-1960. First editions. *Comprising: I. The catalogues of manuscripts & printed books of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Their composition and distribution; II. The family affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps; III. The formation of the Phillipps Library up to the year 1840; IV. The formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872. With an account of the Phillipps art collections by A. E. Popham; V. The dispersal of the Phillipps Library.