Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cook, Christopher D.
Titre(s) : Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School libraries [Texte imprimé] / by Christopher D. Cook ; bookbinding descriptions by Mirjam M. Foot
Publication : London : the Bibliographical society, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (185 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Foreword / Tony Trowles ; List of illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction
; Incunabula in Westminster Abbey Library ; Incunabula in Westminster School Library
; Fragments in Westminster Abbey Library ; Appendix : copies once present in Westminster
Abbey ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography ; Concordances. BMC ; Bod-inc. ; Goff ; GW
; ISTC ; Indexes. Printers and publishers and their locations ; Donors, former owners
and associated names ; Copy-specific features ; Binders and binding features ; Shelfmarks.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"Westminster Abbey is closely connected with the early history of printing in England:
England's first printer, William Caxton, had his workshop within the monastery walls.
Both the Abbey and the adjacent Westminster School have profited by the learning and
generosity of generations of bishops, deans, canons and teachers, who donated or bequeathed
them their collections of incunabula. Eighty-five editions of books printed before
1501, including seventeen fragments, several of great rarity and importance, have
been described in this volume.... They reflect the scholarly interests and collecting
habits of their former owners, ranging widely in subject and originating from a variety
of European presses. The descriptions, by Christopher D. Cook, pay much attention
to copy-specific features. About half the volumes are in contemporary or near-contemporary
bindings, mostly English, but several from the Continent, and these have been identified
and described by Mirjam Foot. Many of the works have early annotations and/or marginal
notes, bearing witness to their ownership and the use their readers made of them,
as well as providing evidence for the importation of early books--bound and unbound--into
England. A detailed bibliography, concordances with major catalogues of incunabula
elsewhere, indexes of printers, publishers, donors and former owners (with short biographies),
copy-specific features, binders and binding features, complete this useful and interesting
volume"
Sujet(s) : Incunables -- Angleterre (GB) -- Londres (GB)
Westminster abbey (Londres). Library
Genre ou forme : Catalogues
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780948170239 (erroné). - ISBN 9780948170232. - ISBN 0948170239 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43869550m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43869550
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
