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A catalogue of books printed at or relating to the University, town & county of Cambridge, from 1521 to 1893 : with bibliographical and biographical notes

Archive Print Item: Bibliography A-3.2 BOW

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Type of record: Book

Title: A catalogue of books printed at or relating to the University, town & county of Cambridge, from 1521 to 1893 : with bibliographical and biographical notes

Other titles: Catalogue of Cambridge books

Level: Item

Classmark: Bibliography A-3.2 BOW

Creator(s): Bowes, Robert (1835?-1919)

Additional creator(s): Jenkinson, Francis John Henry (1853-1923) (Other)

Publisher: On sale by Macmillan & Bowes; University Press

Publication city: Cambridge

Date(s): 1894

Language: English

Size and medium: xxxi, 516 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/185034

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008348779705181

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Issued in parts, 1891-94.


"A bookseller's catalogue, not a bibliography, and it therefore contains only the books we [Macmillan & Bowes] actually possess."--Pref.


3019 titles, arranged chronologically; titles transcribed in full, collations exact, and all items necessary to make the catalogue "bibliographically useful" are furnished. Appendix IV is a "list of books printed at Cambridge, 1521-1650. By F. Jenkinson, M.A., university librarian." (Titles are numbered 3020 to 3515).


"98 illustrations of head and tail-pieces, initial letters, &c.": p. [xiii]-xxxi.


Limited edition of 100 copies.

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With author's autograph presentation inscription

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