IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140925 accession number: PB 13-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 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: 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 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