|
<
Go back
THE UTRECHT PSALTER.
Bond, E. A , Bond,E.A.,E. M. Thompson, Rev. H.O. Coxe, Rev. S. S. Lewis, Sir M. Digby Wyatt, Professor Westwood, F. H. Dickinson & Professor Swainson
Reports addressed to the Trustees of the British Museum on the Age of the Manuscript
The report is on an illuminated manuscript over which there had been some controversy as to its age. The Trustees of the British Museum had asked for a report from several distinguished scholars to resolve the matter. This copy had been in the University of Bristol's library at one time as evidenced by the bookplate and library markings. Very worn, disbound. pages are clean and easily read.
 E-mail/Export ?
More On This Subject - -
> ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, EARLY PERIOD
> UNITED KINGDOM
See other books from the same collection - -
> from the inventory of Questor Rare Books
Books of related interests - -
> GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, CHARTERS, SEALS, ILLUMINATIONS AND BINDINGS EXHIBITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS AND IN THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY.
 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D., TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL...
by Boswell, James
First Napier edition, (New editions) with Notes and Appendices by Alexander Napier, plus one volume, unnumbered of Johnsoniana ("Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy...and extracts from the diary of Madame D'Arblay") 'newly collected and edited by Robina Napier' (Pottle 96). Referred to by Pottle as the best edition of the "Life" before Hill's, essentially a revised Croker. Some of Boswell's notes are placed in the appendixes, which also contain valuable discussions of points too lengthy for use as notes. This edition is prefaced by a valuable essay on Johnson's various biographers, and a summary of the work done by different editors on Boswell's text. The "Life" and the "Tour" contain excellent separate indexes. The most important item in Mrs. Napier's "Johnsoniana" is Thomas Campbell's "Diary of a Visit to England in 1775," which was first published at Sydney, Australia, in 1854, but was here printed for the first time in England. Also separately indexed. "Handsomely printed, with many (54) useful and beautiful illustrations." Pages uncut. Covers soiled, some rubbing to extremites, offset to endpapers, waterstains to top edge of frontispiece and title page in volume five.
|
|
|
