francis wormald wright (8 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 273 pages; 5 5/8 x 8 3/4" Label on spine is rubbed and faded; sticker removed from spine; call number inked on spine; 1 1/2" tear in cloth on spine edge; barcode sticker on rear board and last page; stamping on endpapers, preface page and last page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. The Athlone Press, University of London, 1958. First edition. Hardcover with patterned cream-and-burgundy decorative dust jacket. A collection of scholarly studies on the history of English libraries before 1700, edited by Francis Wormald (Professor of Palaeography in the University of London) and C. E. Wright (Deputy Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). Topics span monastic, cathedral, royal, university, and private libraries of the medieval and early modern period, drawing on palaeographic and bibliographic evidence from surviving manuscripts and catalogues. Distributed by Constable & Co Ltd (London); North American distribution by University of Toronto Press (Canada) and Oxford University Press / Essential Books Division (USA). Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol. Boards clean, binding tight. Dust jacket present with some shelf wear at edges; light spotting. Text block clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. xi, 273 pp. plus 23 plates; 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine title, dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. A fine, well-preserved copy of both the book and dustjacket.

8vo, (216 x 135mm.), xii,273p. 23 plates. A good copy in original cloth though the dustjacket is worn. Formerly Graham Pollard's copy with the provenance label on the front pastedown endleaf, and a later owner's signature on the free. Contains: Francis Wormald The Monastic Library, G.S. Ivy The Bibliography of the Manuscript Book, C.H. Talbot The Universities & the Mediaeval Library, R.M. Wilson The Contents of the Mediaeval Library, Roberto Weiss The Private Collector and the Revival of Greek Learning, M.D. Knowles The Preservation of the Classics, C.E. Wright The Dispersal of the Libraries in the Sixteenth Century, and The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and the Formation of the Cottonian Library, J.C.T. Oates The Libraries of Cambridge 1570-1700, and J.N.L. Myres Oxford Libraries in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries.

Hardcover. Ex-lib, fep clipped, a little rubbing to title on spine, o/wise good condition (no markings to text). No dj. Frontis. B/W plates. Scarce. Includes essays on The Monastic Library, The Universities and the Mediaeval Library, The Preservation of the Classics, The Dispersal of the Libraries in the 16th century etc. 273pp. 48838.

Cloth. Condizione: Good Plus.

8vo. XI, 273 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. Olwd. mit OU. 0,900 gr.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. WORMALD, Francis, and C. E. WRIGHT. The English Library before 1700 London, The Athlone Press, 1958. 8vo, pp. xi, 273, with frontispiece plate. Publisher s cloth, gilt title on painted label to spine. Original dust jacket. A good copy.