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How to collect books

Slater, J Herbert (1854-1921)

1905

Includes index.

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A guide to the research collections of member libraries

Pickering, O S; Consortium of University Research Libraries

1996

At head of title: Consortium of University Research Libraries.

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Unique and distinctive collections : opportunities for research libraries

Cullingford, Alison; Peach, Caroline; Mertens.Mike; Research Libraries UK

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Catalogue of a collection of historical tracts, 1561-1800, in DLXXXII volumes

Reid, Stuart J (1848-1927); Redpath, Grace; Redpath Library

1901

"The basis of the present collection... was a group of state pamphlets in forty volumes, gathered by Sir John Bramston, M.P. (1611-1700) ... The collection as it now stands is rich in civil war and co...

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Incunabula in American libraries : a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections

Goff, Frederick Richmond (1916-)

1973, c1964

Reprint of the ed. published by the Bibliographical Society of America, New York; annotated and corrected, with new introd. and list of dealers.

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Bibliotheca Parisiana : a catalogue of a collection of books, formed by a gentleman in France... : to these are added, from another grand collection, selected articles of high value ... : they will be sold by auction in London, on Monday the 26th of March, 1791, and the five days following

Edwards, James (1757-1816); Paris d'Illens; Loménie de Brienne, Étienne Charles de Cardinal, Abp (1727-1794)

1791

Catalog of the library of Paris d'Illens with additions from the library of E.C. de Loménie de Brienne. Cf. English collectors of books and manuscripts... / S. de Ricci. 1930. p. 89. Preface signed...

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Aspects of French eighteenth century typography : a study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library

Dreyfus, John; McKitterick, David; Roxburghe Club

1982

Spine title: French eighteenth century typography. "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe Club by John Ehrman, 1982"--P.[v]. Bibliography: p. 110-113.

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A description of maps and architectural drawings in the collection made by William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, now at Hatfield House

Skelton, R A (1906-1970); Summerson, John (1904-1992)

1971

Spine title: 16th and 17th century maps and drawings at Hatfield House. "Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club."

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Caxton celebration, 1877. Catalogue of the loan collection of antiquities, curiosities, and appliances connected with the art of printing, South Kensington

Bullen, George (1816-1894)

1877

"This edition is limited to one hundred and fifty-seven copies on hand-made paper".

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Bibliotheca Lindesiana : catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries : printed for the most part in black letter

Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of (1847-1913)

1890

Half title: Catalogue of a collection of English ballads. Limited edition of one hundred copies.

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An early Breton gospel book : a ninth-century manuscript from the collection of H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence, 1887-1965

Wormald, Francis (1904-1972); Alexander, J J G (1935-); Roxburghe Club

1977

The manuscript is in Latin, written in Brittany. Text of a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1955.

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