The british librarian: Exhibiting a compendious review of abstract Of our most Scarce, Useful, and Valuable books in all sciences, as well in manuscript as in print.

OLDYS, William

Verlag: Printed for T. Osborne, London, 1738

Beschreibung

[2], vii, [5], 402pp. With a later engraved portrait of the author bound in. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, recently rebacked, preserving contemporary backstrip. Heavily rubbed. Scattered spotting. The collected edition, with an added index, of English antiquary William Oldys' (1696-1761) bibliographical periodical. Only six issues appeared before the publication was discontinued, with each surveying both manuscript works from the libraries of great contemporary collectors and printed titles including several from Caxton's Westminster press, Pynson's Froissart, Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, Elyot's Boke, Bale's Acts of English Votaries and several classics of seventeenth-century antiquarianism. ESTC T147996. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ27641

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Titel: The british librarian: Exhibiting a ...

Verlag: Printed for T. Osborne, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1738

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First edition.