IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98402 accession number: PB 1910.1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 11 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 2 v. : col.fronts.,illus.,plates(part col.) ports.,facsims ; 31 cm object type: Embraces the period 1475 to 1692; 2 items respectively dated 1705 and 1728 are included as containing woodcuts belonging to a much earlier period. The majority of the books were printed in France, a few from presses at Louvain, Antwerp, La Haye, Middleburg, and Geneva being included, as most of them are in the French language. The main portion of the collection consists of books with cuts, which have been chosen as representative of book-illustration in France. cf. Pref. 707 entries. Full descriptions, except for the 7 works acquired from the Didot library when the catalog was ready for the press. Numerous facsimiles. Indexes: I. Authors & persons mentioned. II. Titles, subjects and places. III. Printers and publishers. IV. Names of former owners. Companion work to the "Catalogue of a collection of early German books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray," issued in 2 vols., 1913. object type: Compiled by Hugh Wm. Davies title: Catalogue of a collection of early French books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98402 TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1910 - 1910 creation date earliest: 1910 creation date latest: 1910 CREATORS -------- maker: Murray, Charles Fairfax maker: Davies, Hugh Wm.