Author: Falconer Madan
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Early Oxford Press
Author: Falconer Madan
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Philobiblon
Author: Richard De Bury
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Author: Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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List of members in v. 1.
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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List of members in v. 1.
The Summe of Christian Religion
Author: Zacharias Ursinus
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Category : Heidelberger Katechismus
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category : Heidelberger Katechismus
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Typographical Antiquities; Or The History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland:
Author: Joseph Ames
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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The Epistle
Author: Martin Marprelate
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Category : Marprelate controversy
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Category : Marprelate controversy
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Original and Growth of Printing
Author: Richard Atkyns
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ISBN: 9781904799535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
For the first time, these important works by Richard Atkyns, touching on his own life, the history of printing in England and the English Civil War, are brought together in one volume with an introduction, notes and index.
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ISBN: 9781904799535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
For the first time, these important works by Richard Atkyns, touching on his own life, the history of printing in England and the English Civil War, are brought together in one volume with an introduction, notes and index.
A system of arithmetic
Author: John Husband (math. master, Berwick.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Caxton Celebration, 1877
Author: South Kensington Museum
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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