Books and readers - Book collectors - Britain - 19C

Lot Comprises:

Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1792-1872

Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Munby, Phillipps Studies, no. I: The catalogues of manuscripts & printed books of Sir Thomas Phillipps: their composition and distribution, Cambridge, University Press, 1951 - - no. 2: The family affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Cambridge, University Press, 1952 - - no. 3. The formation of the Phillipps library up to the year 1840, Cambridge, University Press, 1954 - - no. 4. The formation of the Phillipps library from 1841 to 1872, Cambridge, University Press, 1956 - - 5. The dispersal of the Phillipps library, Cambridge, University Press, 1960, 5 vols., 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1792-1872

Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Portrait of an Obsession: The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the World's Greatest Book Collector (adapted by Nicolas Barker from the five volumes of Phillipps Studies), New York, Putnam's, 1967, 4to., publisher's cloth, dust jacket

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