English Book Collectors
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Short lives of Englishmen who gathered books, with an account of what they collected and what kind of men they were, make up this volume by William Younger Fletcher. He starts with the reign of Henry VII and leaves out earlier collectors, whose holdings were mostly manuscripts, and those like Sir Thomas Bodley who built up collections for public use. Fletcher often lets earlier biographers tell the story in their own words. An appendix by Walter Stanley Graves lists the principal sales of book collections in England. The frontispiece portrays George John, Second Earl Spencer.
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- Author
- William Younger Fletcher
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 231
- Language
- English
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- History
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