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Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Kraus Reprint Corporation, [New York], 1963 reprint of 1870-1871 edition. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. iv, 446 + 554 pp. 1809 + 1810-4173 entries. This set comprises the 2 volumes of Part III, covering the 18th century books. . From the introduction: "For the 18th Century imprints, the important period of late colonial times and the American Revolution, the only chronological list of the John Carter Brown Library is still the Third Part of John Russell Bartlett's first catalogue, which we are now reprinting. The fifty copies originally printed have almost all disappeared and the Union Catalog at the Library of Congress indicates that less than five copies are located in American libraries. The present reprint edition was made from the copy in the New York Public Library. The handwritten annotations were made by the eminent bibliographer, Wilberforce Eames, one-time Lenox Librarian, who continued Sabin's bibliography. Covers slightly rubbed, slightly bumped at head and tail of spines, otherwise… Read More

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 69 pp. 678 entries. From the introduction: "This Catalogue principally lists those printed books now in Merton Oxford, which are the bequest of Dr. Griffin Higgs (1589-1659), founder of the College librarianship. 1988...Higgs was born in the riverside parish of South Stoke in Oxfordshire where his parents were farmers. He was educated at Reading and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1610. Subsequently he translated to Merton College where under the watchful eye of Sir Henry Savile he proceeded to a master's degree and took his turn in various College offices besides being a university proctor in 1622. Between 1626 and 1630 he was incumbent of the College living at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire which he vacated for Cliffe-at-Hoo in Kent. By this time he was already non-resident because in 1627 he had been appointed chaplain to Elizabeth, 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, daughter of… Read More

Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition thus, 1965. Cloth, folio,. 831 columns in double-column format. Very Good.

Printed for private circulation, Leeds, first edition, 1931. Cloth over bevelled boards, 4to, gilt cover device,. xv, [1], 300 pp, ills. With an introduction by George Parker Winship. This volume was the first of a planned series of Catalogues of the Library which the late Lord Brotherton designed to be a National Library for North-Eastern England. In this first volume, Symington describes the principal Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in the Library, including Classical and Illuminated Manuscripts and Historical Deeds and Documents dating from the Xlth to the XVth century, together with a selection of specimens of Early Printing, dating from the Gutenberg Bible c. 1450 to the early XVIth Century, and including works remarkable either for beauty of type or illustration, or interesting because of the author or subject. The descriptions and bibliographical notes are detailed and lengthy and the Catalogue is profusely illustrated with 176 facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts and historical… Read More

Printed for private circulation, Leeds, first edition, 1931. Cloth over bevelled boards, 4to, gilt cover device,. xv, [1], 300 pp, ills. With an introduction by George Parker Winship. This volume was the first of a planned series of Catalogues of the Library which the late Lord Brotherton designed to be a National Library for North-Eastern England. In this first volume, Symington describes the principal Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in the Library, including Classical and Illuminated Manuscripts and Historical Deeds and Documents dating from the Xlth to the XVth century, together with a selection of specimens of Early Printing, dating from the Gutenberg Bible c. 1450 to the early XVIth Century, and including works remarkable either for beauty of type or illustration, or interesting because of the author or subject. The descriptions and bibliographical notes are detailed and lengthy and the Catalogue is profusely illustrated with 176 facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts and historical… Read More

Leeds University Library, Leeds, first edition, 1986. Cloth, large 8vo, 30 cm,. xiii, 108 pp, plates. The Brotherton Collection is the foremost collection of rare books and manuscripts in the library of Leeds University. It is based on the private library formed by Lord Brotherton of Wakefield (1856-1930), a Leeds industrialist, book collector and philanthropist.... This volume celebrates the Brotherton Collection's 50th anniversary by illustrating fifty important items from it and describing them and the sections of the very varied Collection from which they are drawn" - from the introduction. Fine in slightly marked dustwrapper.

Printed by G. Davidson, London, first edition, 1835. Cloth, 8vo, 27 cm,. [8], 215, [1] pp. From the introduction: "The whole number of MSS. in this Library is four hundred and seventy-nine, and may be classed as follows : 1. Sir Matthew Hale. 2. John Maynard, Esq. 3. John Coxe, Esq. 4. Serjeant Hill. 5. Miscellaneous, being the Gift of various Benefactors. Name on title-page, an ex-library copy with "Foreign Office" blindstamped on both boards and a stamp on the front free endpaper, front joint partly broken and tender, covers worn and most of spine lost, contents otherwise Good.

J. E. Cornish, Manchester, first edition, 1899. 3 vols, contemporary brown morocco, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, spine bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, inner gilt dentelles, 4to, 30 x 24 cm,. [ii], 648 + [649]-1334 + [1335]-1986 pp, (double-column format). Volumes I A-E II F-O III P-Z. Catalogue arranged by authors. Entries give author, title, format, place and year of publication. A mildly ex-library copy with the spine-ends chafed and slightly torn at the heads of 2 volumes, abrasions where small spine-labels removed, small stamps on the title-pages and final pages, some offsetting to endpapers from the dentelles, contents Very Good.

Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 1969. 3 vols, cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xci, 479 + v, 565 + v, 542 pp. 4,019 entries. From a contemporary review: "These volumes set a high mark in the study of provenance. The particular achievement is to put into print an admirably informative reconstruction of Horace Walpole's Library. Walpole gathered some 7300 volumes (7000 titles) at Strawberry Hill.. In just over 4000 catalogue-entries (i.e., short titles of works and working titles of collections), Professor Hazen identifies almost all the original contents of the library by title, and determines the physical arrangement of the volumes on Walpole's shelves.. He traces some 1400 volumes (3000 titles) to their present locations. ..As part of the introductory material, the Catalogue prints a revision of Mr Lewis's out-of-print Sandars Lectures of 1957. In these lectures Lewis described Walpole's literary interests, and sketched Walpole's activities with respect to his… Read More

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh first edition, 1906. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine-label, 4to, 29 cm,. x, 27 pp. 119 entries. Catalogues 119 incunabula, including 15 not listed in Proctor's Index. Arranged by country, with Indexes of Authors and of Printers and Places. Boards duststained, corners slightly worn, a few pencil notes and marks, otherwise Good.

Institution of Royal Engineers, [Chatham,], first edition, 1929. Cloth, 8vo,. xxvii, 521, [2] pp. This is a a full Catalogue showing all books in the Library at the end of June, 1928. Contents: Preface; Chronicles of the R.E. Corps Libraries; Bye-Laws, Rules and Regulations; Plan of Library; Subjects Catalogue; Index of Authors' Names, Etc. Front board quite stained, rear board with minor marks, contents Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1982. Cloth, 4to, 32 cm,. xiv, 599 pp, 1 plate. From the blurb: "There was certainly a collection of books at Lincoln Cathedral in the twelfth century, and its origins were perhaps earlier still; but little interest seems to have been taken in building up the library until the second half of the seventeenth century, with the appointment in 1660 of the bibliophile Michael Honywood, a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, as Dean. The present Wren Library's collection of some 8,000 printed books is based largely on his private library, bequeathed to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln on his death in 1681. Much of Honywood's library was put together during seventeen years of voluntary exile in the Low Countries from 1643. It is consequently rich in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century continental literature, including rare Italian plays, European pamphlets and broadsides interpreting the English political situation, a collection of… Read More

Coulthurst Trust, Gargrave, first edition, 1964. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. [5], 417 pp. A catalogue of the library established early in the 17th century at Skipton and based on bequests and donations from Silvester and William Petyt. There are about 5,500 entries representing perhaps 4,000 works, since everything is analytically catalogued and cross-referenced in detail. The books are overwhelmingly English and the latest date of publication is 1710. A contemporary review noted that "The majority relate to the theological controversies of the later seventeenth century, with a sprinkling of S.T.C. books. Thus works by Baxter, Prynne, Burnet, and Joseph Hall are numerous, as are Civil War and Commonwealth tracts, though other subjects are represented: such as history (Holinshed, Heylyn, Camden, Froissart, Grimestone); geography (Purchas, Mercator, Brunei); science (Hartlib, Evelyn, John Harris), to take a few. Literature of any sort is scarce, though editions of Chaucer, Cowley, Davenant, Jonson, and… Read More

[Privately printed], London, first edition, 1888. Quarter-morocco and Roxburghe boards with gilt rule, marbled endpapers, 4to,. [1], 199, 3, [1] pp. From The Library, Volume 2, 1890: "Mr. Gibbs has recently distributed to his friends and fellow members of the Roxburghe Club, copies of the very handsomely printed catalogue of the libraries at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park and at Aldenham House. Mr. Gibbs's collections are rich in Bibles and Liturgies and in works relating to Charles I. They contain also a goodly array of first editions of English classics, which have been wisely supplemented by the reprints of Prof. Arber, Dr. Grosart and other industrious editors. As the catalogue is privately printed we have no right to subject it to minute criticism. We may note, however, that while each individual title appears to have been written with considerable care, for lack of a little editing the inconsistency of the headings is quite glaring." From the preface: "In… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1982. Cloth, 4to, 32 cm,. xiv, 599 pp, 1 plate. From the blurb: "There was certainly a collection of books at Lincoln Cathedral in the twelfth century, and its origins were perhaps earlier still; but little interest seems to have been taken in building up the library until the second half of the seventeenth century, with the appointment in 1660 of the bibliophile Michael Honywood, a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, as Dean. The present Wren Library's collection of some 8,000 printed books is based largely on his private library, bequeathed to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln on his death in 1681. Much of Honywood's library was put together during seventeen years of voluntary exile in the Low Countries from 1643. It is consequently rich in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century continental literature, including rare Italian plays, European pamphlets and broadsides interpreting the English political situation, a collection of… Read More