HOW TO DECIPHER AND STUDY OLD DOCUMENTS Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts. With an Introduction by C. Trice Martin, Assistant Keeper of H.M. Records
Published by Elliot Stock, London, 1893
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Duodecimo; xii+, 143 pages, grey cloth, deckle-edged; x-library with markings Mrs. Cope studied parish registers from her youth and became a recognized paleographer and amateur historian. This, her first book, continues as an important text (currently available by the title HOW TO READ OLD DOCUMENTS). With 11 plates, of which the last is a comparative table of various manuscript alphabets. In Mr. Martin's Introduction he relates mulitple examples of faulty readings made by less-equipped readers, and their consequences. .
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- HOW TO DECIPHER AND STUDY OLD DOCUMENTS Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts. With an Introduction by C. Trice Martin, Assistant Keeper of H.M. Records
- Author
- THOYTS, E. E. / Emma Elizabeth Thoyts Cope
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock, London
- Publication year
- 1893
- Condition
- Good plus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- ancient manuscripts, books about books, Norman Law, paleography
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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