A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall abstracted from the catalogues of William Roscoe and Frederic Madden and annotated by Seymour de Ricci.

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Printed wrappers, small 4to, 23 cm, xiii, 64 pp. 771 entries. From the introduction - "For over a century, scholars of every country have been speculating on the exact contents of the seven hundred and seventy manuscripts which form the glory of the Holkham Library and, although the noble owners were always most liberal in allowing the volumes to be inspected, the absence of a printed catalogue has ever been sadly felt, the various partial lists enumerated hereafter having rather whetted than satisfied our appetite. The present Lord Leicester has been kind enough to allow the manuscript catalogue of his codices, compiled from 1815 to 1824 by William Roscoe and entirely rewritten from 1826 to 1828 by Frederic (later Sir Frederic) Madden, to be forwarded on loan to the ' Bibliothèque nationale at Paris, where I have abstracted from it the materials of the present handlist. " Supplement No. 7 to the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Wrappers slightly browned and slightly edgeworn, slight soiling to fore-edge of front free endpaper, otherwise Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-51480

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