Wanley Humfrey Wright C E (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frontis Portrait (illustrator). Reprinted From The Proceedings Of The British Academy, Volume Xlvi; Printed Grey Wraps; Pp. 98-129 Clean, Unmarked Pages. [Humfrey Wanley Was An English Librarian, Palaeographer And Scholar Of Old English, ].

cloth. Wanley, Humfrey (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. xcvi,208; (iv),209-518 pages. Two volumes. Very good condition. From the introduction: "Humfrey Wanley's Diary or Journal, here printed for the first time in its entirety, was kept by him while Library-Keeper in the service of Robert Harley . It records the visits of, or to, booksellers and dealers, and negotiations with them; lists of manuscripts and printed books offered for sale, purchased, or received by gift; conversations with various people about library business; the vists of scholars and others to the Library, either as students there or as sightseers, and so on. It is in fact a record of the day-to-day business of a working librarian and is in no sense, therefore, a diary such as Pepys's or Evelyn's: apart from occasional references to his healther, Wanley's allusions to personal affairs are few ." Wanley was librarian to the Harleys; the diary is a very interesting look at collecting and bookselling during the early 18th century. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

hardcover, Condition: Very Good, Bibliographical Society, London, 1966, 8vos., cloth, 528pp. 2 library bookplates, ink note on rear tps & stamp on cp, free of other marks, VG- $.

The Bibliographical Society, 1966. 2 volumes, hardback, 8vo, xcv,207;[iii],209-518pp, frontis. No d/js (as issued?), bookplates of The Castle Bookshop Colchester, cloth very slightly bumped and marked. A good set.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Thomas Hill (illustrator). A lovely two-volume complete set of 'The Diary of Humfrey Wanley'. An English librarian, paleographer and scholar of Old English, Wanley was elsewhere known as the first keeper of the Harleian Library, now known as the Harleian Collection, one of the main 'closed' collections of the British Library. Within this volume C.E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright look back at his legacy and compile his correspondence. Featuring a portrait frontispiece of Wanley by the eminent portrait painter and Wanley's longstanding friend Thomas Hill. In cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally very smart. Minor shelfwear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.