IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140925 accession number: PB 13-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: xxiv, 426 p. : ill., map ; 34 cm. object type: 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. object type: By Graham Pollard and Albert Ehrman. title: PB 13-2006 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: John Dreyfus STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140925 TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1965 - 1965 creation date earliest: 1965 creation date latest: 1965 CREATORS -------- maker: Pollard, J. G. maker: Ehrman, Albert maker: Roxburghe Club maker: Crutchley, Brooke