Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth
by Pollard, A.W. & Others ; British Museum
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About This Item
Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1912. Cloth, folio, 39 cm,. xvi, 130 pp, 18 plates, facs. The Huth library was collected by Henry Huth, father of Alfred H. Huth, who in his will allowed the British Museum to select their choice of 50 items from the collection, which was one of the greatest ever assembled. Several of the Museum's experts contributed to the catalogue: "The introduction and most of the descriptions of the printed books are the work of Mr. A. W. Pollard, the ballads have been catalogued by Mr. Arundell Esdaile. The manuscripts have been described by Mr. J. A. Herbert. and the note on the engravings contained in no. X has been supplied by Mr. Campbell Dodgson." Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I. Manuscripts; Part II. Printed Books; Part III. Elizabethan Ballads. Indexes: I. General Index to Manuscripts; II. Index to Subjects of Miniatures .; III. Index to. Printed Books; IV. Index to Ballads; V. Index to First Lines of Ballads. Covers scuffed and scrateched , smakk sticker with pencil notes on front board, library bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and manuscript acquisition note on front free endpaper , library blindstamp on frontispiece, half-title and first and last text pages, otherwise Good.
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- Title
- Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth
- Author
- Pollard, A.W. & Others ; British Museum
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, folio, 39 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers scuffed and scrateched , smakk sticker with pencil notes on front board, library bookplate on front pastedown endpaper an
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1912
- Date Published
- 1912
- Pages
- xvi, 130 pp, 18 plates, facs
- Keywords
- Huth, Alfred Henry Manuscripts England London Rare books Early printed books Incunabula Bibliography Catalogs Catalogues Pollard, Alfred W. Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy ; Herbert, J. A. ; Dodgson, Campbell
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- Rare Books (Bibliographies);
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