Shelfmark
P.Rox.1965.OS
Author
Title
The distribution of books by catalogue : from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800 : based on material in the Broxbourne Library / by Graham Pollard and Albert Ehrman.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Distribution of books by catalogue to A.D. 1800.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Printed for presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1965.
Physical description
xxiv, 426, [1] p. : ill., map ; 34 cm.
Note
"Dedicated and presented to the President and Members of the Roxburghe Club by Albert Ehrman 1965" -- p. [v].
Note
Corrigenda/addenda slip laid in between pp. xxiv and 1.
Note
Spine title: The distribution of books by catalogue to A.D. 1800.
Note
Binding in quarter leather with leather coloured red and gold lettering on the spine.
Note
Title-page verso: "Collotype plates printed in Holland by L. Van Leer & Company. Text printed in Great Britain at the University Printing House, Cambridge (Brooke Crutchley, University Printer)".
Formatted contents note
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.
Provenance
Robert Birley's copy; ms. initials, "R.B".
Provenance
Eton College Library bookplate with "purchased 1983" in ms. ; label with "memoriae Roberti Birley huius bibliothecae famtoris hic liber consecratus" in ms.
Subject
Subject
Catalogs, Booksellers' History.
Subject
Booksellers and bookselling History.
Subject
Book industry and trade History.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Birley, Robert, 1903 - 1982 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
L. van Leer & Co. printer.
Added entry--name
Cambridge University Press printer.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Identifier
B44681