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Cambridge: The Houghton Library, 1965 63p. Frontispiece portrait and facsimile plates. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Small brown spot on p8 and 9, otherwise a fres… Plus…

Cambridge: The Houghton Library, 1965 63p. Frontispiece portrait and facsimile plates. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Small brown spot on p8 and 9, otherwise a fresh clean copy of this standard bibliography. Also includes an inserted copy of Francesco Cordasco's 'A Bibliography of Thomas Frognall Dibdin Author of the Bibliomania', Printed in Brooklyn 1950, 12p., The Houghton Library, 1965, London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. 4to. xviii, 618pp., 34pp index. Illustrated. Brown cloth boards with black leather spine. Gilt title on spine. Boards are shelf and edge worn and cloth starting to fray along the board edges. There are a few chipped page edges before page 1., Chatto and Windus, 1876, Boston:: Bibliophile Society,. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. B00A6D0JMU . Volume I only. Limited edition of 483 copies. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else very good in green, marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. ; 273 pages ., Bibliophile Society, 1903, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 792 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: . . . less intelligible. See Jungendre. Dissertatio de Notis Cluiracterist. Librorum a Tipograph. Incurabulo ad Ann. M. D. impressorum, Norimb. 1740. Dibdins Bibliomania, Homes Introduction to Bibliography, and c. Finally, the reader may contrast the scarceness of books in the dark ages with their present abundance. Many circumstances, says Dr. Robertson (Charles V. vol. i. ) prove the scarcity of books during these ages. Private persons seldom possessed any books whatever. -Even monasteries of considerable note had only one missal. Murat. Antiq. vol. ix. p. 789. Lupus, abbot of Ferrieres, in a letter to the pope, A. D. 855, beseeches him to lend him a copy of Cicero de Oratore, and Quintilians Institutions; for, says he, although we have parts of those books, there is no complete copy of them in all France. Murat. Ant. v. iii. p. 835. The price of books became so high that persons of a moderate fortune could not afford to purchase them. The countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, bishop of Halberstadt, 200 sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet. Histoire Literaire de France, par des Religieux Benedictins, torn, vii. p. 3. Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XL borrowed the works of llasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine in Paris, he not only deposited in pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with hiin as surety in a deed, binding himself, under a great forfeiture, to restore it. Gabr. Naudfc Addit. a 111 istoire de Loyus XI. par Comines, edit, de Fresnoy, torn. iv. p. 281. Many curious circumstances, with respect to the extravagant price of books in the middle ages, are collected by that industrious compiler, to whom I refer. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781236169587

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 792 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 792 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: . . . less intelligible. See Jungendre. Dissertatio de Notis Cluiracterist. Librorum a Tipograph. Incurabulo ad Ann. M. D. impressorum, Norimb. 1740. Dibdins Bibliomania, Homes Introduction to Bibliography, and c. Finally, the reader may contrast the scarceness of books in the dark ages with their present abundance. Many circumstances, says Dr. Robertson (Charles V. vol. i. ) prove the scarcity of books during these ages. Private persons seldom possessed any books whatever. -Even monasteries of considerable note had only one missal. Murat. Antiq. vol. ix. p. 789. Lupus, abbot of Ferrieres, in a letter to the pope, A. D. 855, beseeches him to lend him a copy of Cicero de Oratore, and Quintilians Institutions; for, says he, although we have parts of those books, there is no complete copy of them in all France. Murat. Ant. v. iii. p. 835. The price of books became so high that persons of a moderate fortune could not afford to purchase them. The countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, bishop of Halberstadt, 200 sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet. Histoire Literaire de France, par des Religieux Benedictins, torn, vii. p. 3. Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XL borrowed the works of llasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine in Paris, he not only deposited in pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with hiin as surety in a deed, binding himself, under a great forfeiture, to restore it. Gabr. Naudfc Addit. a 111 istoire de Loyus XI. par Comines, edit, de Fresnoy, torn. iv. p. 281. Many curious circumstances, with respect to the extravagant price of books in the middle ages, are collected by that industrious compiler, to whom I refer. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

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