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Hardcover. Condición: Fine, minimal shelf wear. Blue binding with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endsheets. xii, 448 pp. Illustrations and facsimiles in B&W. "Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. These essays explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library and cast new light on the individuals whose personal interests and taste they reflect.--Dust jacket.

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, xii + 448pp, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, minor tape remnants to board edges & pastedowns, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, minimal library labels).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrations within the text. Blue cloth with gilt spine titling, decorative endpapers. A fine copy with like dust-jacket. Inter alia: Printed material and the Cotton manuscripts, Julian Harrison; Sir Hans Sloane's printed books in the British Library: their identification and associations, Alison Walker; Sloane's purchases at the sale of Robert Hooke's library, Giles Mandelbrote; Sloane and the preservation of printed Ephemera, Giles Mandelbrote; The early decades. George Thomason's intentions, Michael Mendle; Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, Paul Quarrie; Sir William Musgrave (1735-1800) and the British Museum Library, C.J. Wright; The scholarly library and collections of knowledge of Sir Joseph Banks, Rudiger Joppien and Neil Chambers; The BM duplicate sales 1769-1832 and their significance for the early collections,T.A. Birrell; The King's Library. The Bibliotheca Smithiana, Lotte Hellinga; Moving the King's Library: argument and sentiment 1823-1998, John Goldfinch ;