The Great Book-Collectors
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The Great Book-Collectors
Author of 'Origins of English History'
'The Career of Columbus,' etc.
& Mary Augusta Elton
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
Contents
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CHAPTER I.
CLASSICAL.
CHAPTER II.
IRELAND—NORTHUMBRIA.
CHAPTER III.
ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IV.
ITALY—THE AGE OF PETRARCH.
CHAPTER V.
OXFORD—DUKE HUMPHREY'S BOOKS—THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS.
CHAPTER VI.
ITALY—THE RENAISSANCE.
CHAPTER VII.
ITALIAN CITIES—OLYMPIA MORATA—URBINO—THE BOOKS OF CORVINUS.
CHAPTER VIII.
GERMANY—FLANDERS—BURGUNDY—ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IX.
FRANCE: EARLY BOOKMEN—ROYAL COLLECTORS.
CHAPTER X.
THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY—FAIRFAX—COTTON—HARLEY—THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
CHAPTER XI.
BODLEY—DIGBY—LAUD—SELDEN—ASHMOLE.
CHAPTER XII.
GROLIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
CHAPTER XIII.
LATER COLLECTORS: FRANCE—ITALY—SPAIN.
CHAPTER XIV.
DE THOU—PINELLI—PEIRESC.
CHAPTER XV.
FRENCH COLLECTORS—NAUDÉ TO RENOUARD.
CHAPTER XVI.
LATER ENGLISH COLLECTORS.
INDEX.
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