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The Great Book-Collectors By: Charles Isaac Elton (1839-1900) |
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By Charles Isaac Elton Author of 'Origins of English History'
'The Career of Columbus,' etc. & Mary Augusta Elton [Illustration] London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. MDCCCXCIII
Contents PAGE CHAPTER I.
CLASSICAL 1 CHAPTER II.
IRELAND NORTHUMBRIA 13 CHAPTER III.
ENGLAND 27 CHAPTER IV.
ITALY THE AGE OF PETRARCH 41 CHAPTER V.
OXFORD DUKE HUMPHREY'S BOOKS THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS 53 CHAPTER VI.
ITALY THE RENAISSANCE 63 CHAPTER VII.
ITALIAN CITIES OLYMPIA MORATA URBINO THE BOOKS OF CORVINUS 76 CHAPTER VIII.
GERMANY FLANDERS BURGUNDY ENGLAND 87 CHAPTER IX.
FRANCE: EARLY BOOKMEN ROYAL COLLECTORS 99 CHAPTER X.
THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY FAIRFAX COTTON HARLEY THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 111 CHAPTER XI.
BODLEY DIGBY LAUD SELDEN ASHMOLE 124 CHAPTER XII.
GROLIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS 139 CHAPTER XIII.
LATER COLLECTORS: FRANCE ITALY SPAIN 158 CHAPTER XIV.
DE THOU PINELLI PEIRESC 169 CHAPTER XV.
FRENCH COLLECTORS NAUDÉ TO RENOUARD 183 CHAPTER XVI.
LATER ENGLISH COLLECTORS 202 INDEX 221
List of Illustrations
PORTRAIT OF PEIRESC Frontispiece
(From an engraving by Claude Mellan.) INITIAL LETTER FROM THE 'GOSPELS OF ST. CUTHBERT' 18 SEAL OF RICHARD DE BURY 38 PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD PRAYING BEFORE ST. GEORGE 59
(From the Book of Hours commonly known as the 'Bedford Missal.') PORTRAIT OF MAGLIABECCHI 74
(From an engraving in the British Museum.) BINDING EXECUTED FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH 112
(English jeweller's work on a cover of red velvet. From a
copy of 'Meditationum Christianarum Libellus,' Lyons,
1570, in the British Museum.) PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT COTTON 117
(From an engraving by R. White after C. Jonson.) PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY 126
(From an engraving in the British Museum.) BINDING EXECUTED FOR GROLIER 141
(From a copy of Silius Italicus, Venice, 1523, in the British
Museum.) PORTRAIT OF DE THOU 168
(From an engraving by Morin, after L. Ferdinand.)
CHAPTER I. CLASSICAL.
In undertaking to write these few chapters on the lives of the
book collectors, we feel that we must move between lines that seem
somewhat narrow, having regard to the possible range of the subject. We
shall therefore avoid as much as possible the description of particular
books, and shall endeavour to deal with the book collector or
book hunter, as distinguished from the owner of good books, from
librarians and specialists, from the merchant or broker of books and the
book glutton who wants all that he sees. Guillaume Postel and his friends found time to discuss the merits of the
authors before the Flood. Our own age neglects the libraries of Shem, and
casts doubts on the antiquity of the Book of Enoch. But even in writing
the briefest account of the great book collectors, we are compelled to go
back to somewhat remote times, and to say at least a few words about the
ancient book stories from the far East, from Greece and Rome, from Egypt
and Pontus and Asia. We have seen the brick libraries of Nineveh and the
copies for the King at Babylon, and we have heard of the rolls of
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