Verlag: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, second revised edition, 1920, 1920
Anbieter: Wykeham Books, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Cloth, paper spine-label, small 8vo, 22 cm, xv, 208 pp, viii leaves of plates. From the introduction: "The present elementary work is intended to be a plain account of the study and use of manuscripts, such as may interest both the amateur who possesses manuscript treasures, but lacks the time or opportunity to go deeply into the subject, and the student who may wish to have a first view of the character and methods of the study, before entering on the endless details of palaeography and textual criticism." Appendixes: A. Public libraries which contain more than five thousand manuscripts. B. List of the chief official printed catalogues of manuscripts in European languages in the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, etc. C. Books useful for the study of manuscripts. Spine slightly rubbed, paper spine-label browned and slightly torn, rear board a little sunned, a Good clean copy.
Verlag: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, first edition, large-paper copy, 1893, 1893
Anbieter: Wykeham Books, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Large-paper edition of 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. Full navy morocco, gilt spine-titles, gilt filet on board edges, elaborate leather doublures with silk flyleaves, top edge gilt, (bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery), 8vo, 22 cm, xv, 188 pp, viii leaves of plates. Contents: I. Introductory; II. Materials for writing, and forms of books; III. The history of writing; IV. Scribes and their ways; V. Illuminations; VI. The blunders of scribes and their correction; VII. Famous libraries; VIII. Famous manuscripts; IX. Literary forgeries; X. Treatment and cataloguing of manuscripts; XI. Public and private records; Appendices: A. Public libraries which contain more than four thousand manuscripts. B. List of printed catalogues of manuscripts in European languages in the British Museum, Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, etc. C. Some books useful for the study of manuscripts. Copy No.89. Leather booklabel on inside front board of Carl Adolph Kroch, sometime head of Kroch's and Brentano's, for a long time the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the USA. Front joint worn and slightly tender, rear joint slightly rubbed, contents Very Good.