Main entry:

Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974.

Title & Author:

Essays and papers / A.N.L. Munby ; edited, with an introd., by Nicholas Barker.

Publication:

London : Scolar Press, 1977.

Description:

xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241).
Some caricatures of book-collectors (1948) -- John Maynard Keynes : the book-collector (1949) -- Notes on King's College Library in the fifteenth century (1951) -- Floreat bibliomania (1952) -- The distribution of the first edition of Newton's Principia (1952) -- Charles Geoffrey des Graz (1953) -- The library of George Thackeray (1957) -- The acquisition of manuscripts by institutional libraries (1960) -- Did Mr. Cavendish burn his Caxtons? (with M. Pollard, 1963) -- The libraries of English men of letters (1964) -- Macaulay's library (1965) -- Three opportunities (1966) -- The case of the 'Caxton' manuscript of Ovid (1968) -- The earl and the thief (1968) -- The triumph of Delisle : a sequel to 'The earl and the thief' (1969) -- Arthur Cole (1968) -- Book collecting in the 1930s (1973) -- Father and son : the Rev. Reginald Heber's vain attempt to stem the rising tide of his son Richard's bibliomania (1976) -- List of writings of A.N.L. Munby.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP28.00 0.

ISBN:

0859673499
9780859673495

Subject:

Book collecting.
Manuscripts Collectors and collecting.
Rare books Bibliography.
Libraries.
Book collectors.
Rare books.
Manuscripts.
Book Collecting
Rare Books
Bibliophiles.
Bibliophilie.
Bibliothèques.
Livres rares.
Manuscrits.
Manuscrits Collectionneurs et collections.
Livres rares Bibliographie.
libraries (buildings)
manuscripts (documents)

Form/genre:

Manuscripts
Bibliographies
Rare books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3153
Call No.: 0005485; ID:87-B19741
Status: Available