Bury (Richard de, Bishop of Durham) Philobiblon...sive de amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecae..., [edited by Thomas James], collation: *4, A-I4, complete with blank H4 (often lacking), [8], 62, [10] pp., typographical ornament to title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces, slightly trimmed just touching head-lines of *2 & *3, with neat contemporary ink corrections/annotations to margins, title very lightly soiled, one or two small ink spots, early 20th century tan calf, gilt, by W.Pratt, spine gilt in compartments with red roan label, inner gilt floral edges, g.e., [STC 959; Madan I p.47; Pforzheimer 21], small 4to (173 x 127mm.), Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1599. ⁂ The first edition to be printed in England of the first published work on this topic, the first veritable manifesto of bibliophily, or love of books. It was written in 1345 by Richard Aungerville, better known as Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham and a great book collector, who in his work discusses not only book collecting and the maintenance of a library, but also the state of learning and scholarly practices of his age. This short treatise was published for the first time in Cologne in 1473. The text of the English edition was edited by Thomas James of New College Oxford, who dedicated the publication to his patron, Thomas Bodley. James added as an appendix a list of the authors of manuscripts preserved in Oxford colleges, the first such catalogue. A 1598 issue, possibly a trial publication, is recorded in only one copy, without James's dedication to Bodley or the appendix. Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (with typical cutting of decorative binding mounted on front pastedown); James P.R.Lyell (gilt-stamped oval roan book-label); James Stevens Cox (book-label). James P.R.Lyell (1871-1948), solicitor, book-collector and author. He first collected incunabula and early Spanish books, assembling an important collection on the Spanish Armada, and published several works, most notably Early Book Illustration in Spain in 1926. He went on to collect approximately 250 medieval manuscripts, 100 of which were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library along with his bibliographical papers and notes.
Bury (Richard de, Bishop of Durham) Philobiblon...sive de amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecae..., [edited by Thomas James], collation: *4, A-I4, complete with blank H4 (often lacking), [8], 62, [10] pp., typographical ornament to title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces, slightly trimmed just touching head-lines of *2 & *3, with neat contemporary ink corrections/annotations to margins, title very lightly soiled, one or two small ink spots, early 20th century tan calf, gilt, by W.Pratt, spine gilt in compartments with red roan label, inner gilt floral edges, g.e., [STC 959; Madan I p.47; Pforzheimer 21], small 4to (173 x 127mm.), Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1599. ⁂ The first edition to be printed in England of the first published work on this topic, the first veritable manifesto of bibliophily, or love of books. It was written in 1345 by Richard Aungerville, better known as Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham and a great book collector, who in his work discusses not only book collecting and the maintenance of a library, but also the state of learning and scholarly practices of his age. This short treatise was published for the first time in Cologne in 1473. The text of the English edition was edited by Thomas James of New College Oxford, who dedicated the publication to his patron, Thomas Bodley. James added as an appendix a list of the authors of manuscripts preserved in Oxford colleges, the first such catalogue. A 1598 issue, possibly a trial publication, is recorded in only one copy, without James's dedication to Bodley or the appendix. Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (with typical cutting of decorative binding mounted on front pastedown); James P.R.Lyell (gilt-stamped oval roan book-label); James Stevens Cox (book-label). James P.R.Lyell (1871-1948), solicitor, book-collector and author. He first collected incunabula and early Spanish books, assembling an important collection on the Spanish Armada, and published several works, most notably Early Book Illustration in Spain in 1926. He went on to collect approximately 250 medieval manuscripts, 100 of which were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library along with his bibliographical papers and notes.
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