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.
Genre/Form
Facsimiles.
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