To bibliographers and to historians of culture in the widest sense [this] up-to-date author-title catalogue, giving the place, imprint and date of publication together with the entry numbers, where appropriate, of Pollard and Redgrave and Wing, will need no recommendation. Its contents [are] as near to an epitome of late 17th-century English civilisation as we are likely to find. RICHARD OLLARD, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTSamuel Pepys's great collection is the finest surviving seventeenth-century library and one of the major libraries of the world despite its relatively modest size. It is as remarkable as the Diary itself, and comprises some 3,000 volumes of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in artistically important bindings, many political papers (especially concerning the Navy), a great collection of ballads, seventeenth-century music, calligraphy, maps, and a large collection of prints and drawings of historical and artistic interest.
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Vendeur : Cornerstone Books, Santa Ana, CA, Etats-Unis
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Samual Pepys lived 1633-1703. During his lifetime, he collected a number of books of different subjects. This is a catalog of the books he willed to Magdalene College at his death. This volume catalogs the printed books in the collection. Included is an appendix. This copy is clean and solid. It is from the collection of Lawrence Clark Powell. Powell was dean of library services at UCLA until 1966 and this copy bears his personal bookplate on the front pastedown. N° de réf. du vendeur 007053
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Vendeur : Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp XII, 201. 1st printing. An unread book. DJ complete with closed tears, some sunning and marks to lower cover. N° de réf. du vendeur 037214
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