The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800, based on material in the Broxbourne Library The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800, based on material in the Broxbourne Library: PB 13-2006

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The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800, based on material in the Broxbourne Library The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800, based on material in the Broxbourne Library

Maker(s)

Author: Pollard, J. G.
Author: Ehrman, Albert
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Description

By Graham Pollard and Albert Ehrman.

Spine title: The distribution of books by catalogue to A.D. 1800.
Corrigenda/addenda slip laid in between tipped on back pastedown,
"Dedicated and presented to the President and Members of the Roxburghe Club by Albert Ehrman 1965" -- p. [v].
With bibliographical footnotes and index.
Inscription: Presented to John Dreyfus by Albert Ehrman. With very many thanks for all the time & thought you have devoted to the production of this book, which has made it the outstanding success it is. March 17 1965.

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Note on abbreviations -- 1. The fifteenth century -- 2.Catalogues of the sixteenth-century printers -- 3. The German book fair catalogues -- 4. The "Latin trade" in England -- 5. Seventeenth-century catalogues in other countries -- 6. The English retailer’s reference books -- 7. English daybooks, trade cards, and individual catalogues -- 8. Catalogues in books -- 9. Proposals -- 10. Inventories -- 11. Auction sales -- 12. Institutional library catalogues -- 13. The private library open to scholars -- 14. The personal library -- Addendum -- The Broxbourne material.

Xxiv, 426 p. : ill., map ; 34 cm.