Bibliomania in the Middle Ages : being sketches of bookworms, collectors, Bible students, scribes, and illuminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, to the introduction of printing into England ; with anecdotes illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain in the olden time
by Merryweather, F. S. ; Copinger, H. B.; Copinger, W.A. ; Schonfield, H.J
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- An unnumbered copy. Worn at spine ends, spine-titles faded, boards scuffed, contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Good
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About This Item
The Woodstock Press, and to be sold by Denis Archer, London, new and revised edition, 1933,. Limited edition of 750 copies, of which 720 were for sale. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 288 pp. ;. An unnumbered copy. Worn at spine ends, spine-titles faded, boards scuffed, contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Good.
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- Title
- Bibliomania in the Middle Ages : being sketches of bookworms, collectors, Bible students, scribes, and illuminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, to the introduction of printing into England ; with anecdotes illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain in the olden time
- Author
- Merryweather, F. S. ; Copinger, H. B.; Copinger, W.A. ; Schonfield, H.J
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - An unnumbered copy. Worn at spine ends, spine-titles faded, boards scuffed, contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Good
- Edition
- Limited edition of 750 copies, of which 720 were for sale
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Woodstock Press, and to be sold by Denis Archer, London, new and revised edition, 1933,
- Date Published
- 1933
- Pages
- 288 pp. ;
- Keywords
- Merryweather, Frederick Somner - Harold Bernard; Copinger, Walter Arthur; Schonfield, Hugh Joseph; Archer, Denis; Woodstock, Press Bibliomania - History. Scriptoria - England - History. Book collectors - England - Biography. Books and reading - England -
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