A catalogue of the printed books in the library … at Middle-Hill.

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Title

A catalogue of the printed books in the library … at Middle-Hill.

Coverage

Middle-Hill

Publisher

Printed by Edwyn Offer

Date

1828 [i.e, 1827–1871]

Description

This catalogue records nearly 12,000 printed books in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), one of the most voracious bibliophiles who ever lived. At his death the Bibliotheca Phillippica numbered almost 100,000 books and manuscripts, and selling it off took the better part of a century. The catalogue of the printed books, issued in fourteen parts over nearly fifty years, is the product of Phillipps’s own idiosyncractic Middle Hill Press. This copy, one of only six printed, belonged to Sir Thomas himself, and it bristles with his additions and annotations.

Source

Gift of Jean Mermin Horblit in honor of her husband, Harrison D. Horblit, 1995.