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The Philobilon of Richard de Bury: Bishop of Durham Treasurer of Edward II
by de Bury, Richard and Ernest Thomas (Ed. and Tr.)
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. (Chiswick Press), 1888. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. lxxxv +259 pages. Front cover with two bookplates, one of Wilhem[us] Cooke and the other redacted/obscured in black ink. Endpapers lightly foxed and toned, but pages otherwise bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Title page in red and black, and pages well printed with wide margins. Frontispiece of seal present with protective tissue. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Bound in (near?) contemporary waxed cloth with gilt tile to front cover and gilt title, author and publisher to spine. Spine a little sunbleached and very light rubbing to extremities. A spectacular copy of this reprinting on de Bury's work on the love of books and book collecting in Latin with English translation. It also contains biographical and historical materials. A scarce work about an even rarer work (selling for six figures when available on the market). A must for any serious bibliophile. A very good example of this scarce work.
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- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1291
- Title
- The Philobilon of Richard de Bury: Bishop of Durham Treasurer of Edward II
- Author
- de Bury, Richard and Ernest Thomas (Ed. and Tr.)
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. (Chiswick Press)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- deBury philibiblon philobiblion books collecting bibliophile 19th Chiswick
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
St. Wulfstans Books
Biblio member since 2009
Fayetteville, Arkansas
About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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