The Brotherton Library: A Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books collected by Edward Allen, Baron Brotherton of Wakefield, compiled by John Alexander Symington.

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Cloth over bevelled boards, 4to, gilt cover device, xv, [1], 300 pp, ills. With an introduction by George Parker Winship. This volume was the first of a planned series of Catalogues of the Library which the late Lord Brotherton designed to be a National Library for North-Eastern England. In this first volume, Symington describes the principal Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in the Library, including Classical and Illuminated Manuscripts and Historical Deeds and Documents dating from the Xlth to the XVth century, together with a selection of specimens of Early Printing, dating from the Gutenberg Bible c. 1450 to the early XVIth Century, and including works remarkable either for beauty of type or illustration, or interesting because of the author or subject. The descriptions and bibliographical notes are detailed and lengthy and the Catalogue is profusely illustrated with 176 facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts and historical documents, title-pages and printing types, showing colophons, devices and woodcuts. There is a check-list of the incunabula in the Brotherton Library, amounting to over 600 specimens, including some of the most important books of the 15th century, and the original leaves issued with Schreiber's " Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century," Haebler's "German Incunabula," " Der Italienische Wiegendruck," and " West-European Incunabula," which are here indexed for the first time. An Index of Printers is also included. Bumped near head of spine, slight fingermarking to prelims, otherwise Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-52771

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