The Great Book-Collectors
by Charles Isaac Elton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Book collectors -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18938
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18938
- Release Date
- July 29, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Great Book-Collectors
- 2.& Mary Augusta Elton — London — Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
- 3.Contents
- 4.List of Illustrations
- 5.CHAPTER I. — CLASSICAL.
- 6.CHAPTER II. — IRELAND—NORTHUMBRIA.
- 7.CHAPTER III. — ENGLAND.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. — ITALY—THE AGE OF PETRARCH.
- 9.CHAPTER V. — OXFORD—DUKE HUMPHREY'S BOOKS—THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. — ITALY—THE RENAISSANCE.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. — ITALIAN CITIES—OLYMPIA MORATA—URBINO—THE BOOKS OF CORVINUS.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. — GERMANY—FLANDERS—BURGUNDY—ENGLAND.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. — FRANCE: EARLY BOOKMEN—ROYAL COLLECTORS.
- 14.CHAPTER X. — THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY—FAIRFAX—COTTON—HARLEY—THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. — BODLEY—DIGBY—LAUD—SELDEN—ASHMOLE.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. — GROLIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. — LATER COLLECTORS: FRANCE—ITALY—SPAIN.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. — DE THOU—PINELLI—PEIRESC.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. — FRENCH COLLECTORS—NAUDÉ TO RENOUARD.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI. — LATER ENGLISH COLLECTORS.
- 21.INDEX. — Transcriber's Notes
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