Books in Manuscript : A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records
by Madan, F. ; Pennell, J
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Copy No.89. Leather booklabel on inside front board of Carl Adolph Kroch, sometime head of Kroch's and Brentano's, for a
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About This Item
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, first edition, large-paper copy, 1893. 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.
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- Title
- Books in Manuscript : A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records
- Author
- Madan, F. ; Pennell, J
- Format/Binding
- Full navy morocco, gilt spine-titles, gilt filet on board edges, elaborate leather doublures with silk flyleaves, top edge gilt,
- Book Condition
- Used - Copy No.89. Leather booklabel on inside front board of Carl Adolph Kroch, sometime head of Kroch's and Brentano's, for a
- Edition
- Large-paper edition of 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade pape
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., London, first edition, large-paper copy, 1893
- Date Published
- 1893
- Pages
- xv, 188 pp, viii leaves of plates
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About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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