Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum. New Series. Volume 1 Part I : The Arundel Manuscripts.

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Original boards with printed paper spine-label, folio, 45 x 29 cm. viii, 168 pp, 8 plates including 2 in colour. 550 entries. The illustrated catalogue (8 plates) of a major manuscript collection. Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (d.1646), amassed what stands as the first major British art collection, which included painting, sculpture, and manuscripts. In 1666 his grandson, Henry Howard, divided the library between the Royal Society and the College of Arms. In 1831 the British Museum purchased the Royal Society's share of more than 500 manuscripts. Boards darkened, rubbed, and a little marked, spine largely lacking, although binding remains firm. An ex-library copy with a manuscript casemark on the lower front board, a library label recording the volume's presentation on the front pastedown endpaper, blindstamps on the title-pages and perhaps 6 others, some agetoning to page edges and occasional mnor fingermarking, otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-31055

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