Remarkable
bindings
in the British Museum.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
Bibliographical Society.
1904.
The early Oxford press, ‘1468'-1640. Oxford, 1895.
Wilson, J. D. A new tract from the Marprelate press. The Library, 1909,
pp. 225-240. See also chap. XVII and bibliography in vol. III.
Aldis, H. G. A list of books printed in Scotland before 1700. Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society. 1904.
Scottish Bibliography. Scottish Review, xxix, 1897.
Thomas Finlason and his press. Edinburgh Bibliographical Soc.
Papers, I, 1896.
Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. 2. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh, 1836. (For wills
and inventories of Edinburgh printers and stationers. )
Cowan, W. Andro Hart and his press. Edinburgh Bibliographical Soc.
Papers, I, 1896.
Dickson, R. and Edmond, J. P. Annals of Scottish printing to the beginning
of the 17th century. Cambridge, 1890.
Dobson, W. T. History of the Bassandyne Bible. Edinburgh, 1887.
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Papers. 1896 ff.
Edmond, J. P. The Aberdeen printers, 1620–1736. Aberdeen, 1886. Last
notes on the Aberdeen printers. 1888.
Notes on the inventories of Edinburgh printers, 1577-1603. Edinburgh
Bibliographical Soc. Papers, I, 1896.
History of the art of printing. James Watson, Edinburgh, 1713. (For the
history of Scottish printing. )
Lee, J. Memorial for the Bible Societies in Scotland. Edir argh, 1824.
Additional memorial. Edinburgh, 1826. (Contain much information
relating to early Scottish printers. )
Dix, E. R. McC. Catalogue of early Dublin-printed books, 1601-1700. Dublin,
1898-1905.
- List of books, pamphlets, &c. , printed wholly, or partly, in Irish. Dublin,
1905.
35-2
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548
Bibliography
Dix, E. R. MoC. The earliest Dublin printers and the Company of Stationers
of London. Bibliographical Soc. Trans. VII, 1904.
The earliest Dublin printing. Dublin, 1901.
The ornaments used by John Franckton, printer at Dublin. Biblio-
graphical Soc. Trans. VIII, 1907.
Printing in the Irish character. (Letters from Bradshaw, H. , to Reed, T. B. )
The Bibliographical Register, 1905.
EARLY TRADE CATALOGUES.
Maunsell, A. The first part of the catalogue of English printed bookes :
which concerneth such matters of divinitie, as have bin either written in
our owne tongue, or translated out of anie other language. 1595.
The seconde parte of the catalogue of English printed bookes . . . which
concerneth the sciences mathematicall, as arithmetick, geometrie, as-
tronomie, astrologie, musick, the arte of warre, and navigation: and also,
of phisick and surgerie. 1595.
Catalogus universalis pro nundinis Francofurtensibus vernalibus, de anno
M. DC. XVII. John Bill, London, 1617.
This list was published twice a year, in April and October, and at least
twenty-four numbers (April 1617 to October 1628) are known to have been
issued. From October 1622 to October 1626, a supplement of Books printed
in English was appended to each number.
A catalogue of such English bookes, as lately have bene, and now are in
printing for publication. From the ninth day of October, 1618, untill
Easter terme next ensuing. And. . . to be continued for every half year.
W. Jaggard, London, 1618. (No further issue has been found. )
A catalogue of certaine bookes which have been published, and (by authoritie)
printed in England, both in Latine and English, since the yeare 1626,
untill November this present yeare 1631. Now published for supply
since the intermission of the English Catalogue, with intention hereafter
to publish it exactly every yeare. London, 1631. (No further issue has
been found. )
Arber, E. Contemporary printed lists of books produced in England.
Bibliographica, vol. 111, 1897.
Growoll, A. Three centuries of English booktrade bibliography. New
York, 1903. (Contains & list, by Eames, W. , of the catalogues, etc. ,
published for the English book trade from 1595-1902. )
BOOKBINDING.
Bagford's Notes on bookbindings. Ed. Davenport, C. Bibliographical Soc.
Trans. VII, 1904.
Brassington, W. S. Historic bindings at the Bodleian Library. 1892.
Catalogue of the exhibition of bookbindings at the Burlington Fine Arts
Club. 1891.
Davenport, C. English embroidered bookbindings. 1899.
English heraldic book stamps. 1909.
Little Gidding bindings. Bibliographica, vol. 11, 1896.
Royal English bookbindings. Portfolio monographs. 1896.
Fletcher, W. Y. English armorial book stamps and their owners. Biblio
graphica, vol. 111, 1897.
English bookbindings. 1896. Rptd from The Portfolio, 1893.
English bookbindings in the British Museum. 1895.
Gibson, S. Early Oxford bindings. Bibliographical Society. 1903.
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Chapter XVIII
549
Gibson, S. The localization of books by their bindings. Bibliographical
Soc. Trans. VIII, 1907.
Gray, G. J. The earlier Cambridge stationers and bookbinders. Biblio-
graphical Society. 1904.
Holmes, R. R. Specimens of royal, fine, and historical bookbinding selected
from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 1893.
Horne, H. P. The binding of books, an essay in the history of gold-tooled
bindings. 1894.
Prideaux, s. T. An historical sketch of bookbinding. 1893. (Contains a
chapter on early stamped bindings by Duff, E. G. )
Quaritch, B. Facsimiles of choice examples of historical and artistic book-
binding in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1889.
Weale, W. H. J. Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National
Art Library South Kensington Museum. 2 parts. 1894-8.
Wheatley, H. B.
Remarkable bindings in the British Museum. 1889.
CHAPTER XIX
THE FOUNDATION OF LIBRARIES
Abbott, T K. The Book of Trinity College, Dublin (1591-1891). Belfast
and Dublin, 1892. Chap. VII.
Becker, G. Catalogi Bibliothecarum antiqui. Bonn, 1885.
Botfield, B. Catalogi veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm.
(Edited by B. Botfield. ) Surtees Society. Vol. vii. 1840.
Notes on the Cathedral Libraries of England. 1849.
Bowes, Robt. Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to the University,
Town and County of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893. Cambridge, 1894.
Bradley, J. W. Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and
Copyists. 3 vols. 1887-9.
Bradshaw, H. Collected Papers. Cambridge, 1889.
Camdeni et illustrium Virorum Epistolae. Ed. Smith, T. 1691.
Carlisle, Nich. Endowed Grammar Schools. 2 vols. 1818. Vol. 1, pp. 435-6.
Catalogue of MSS in Cambridge University Library. 5 vols. 1856-61.
Catalogue of MSS in Bodleian collected by Clarke, E. D. 2 vols. 1812-5.
Catalogue of MSS in Bodleian. 13 vols. 1848–56.
Catalogues of the manuscripts in the libraries of Peterhouse, Clare, Pembroke,
Gonville and Caius, Trinity Hall, King's, Queens', Jesus, Christ's, Trinity,
Emmanuel and Sidney Sussex colleges, Cambridge, ed. James, M. R.
Cambridge, v. d.
Clark, J. W. Ancient Libraries: Christ Church, Canterbury. Camb. Antiq.
Soc. Proceedings, vol. VIII, p. 359.
The Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge.
4 vols. Cambridge, 1886.
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. Camb ge, 1894.
The Care of Books. 2nd edition. Cambridge, 1902. (Incorporates a
large proportion of the information respecting libraries in the three
preceding works and also traces; the development of libraries from
antiquity to the end of the 18th century. )
Coxe, H. O. Catalogus Codicum MSS qui in Collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus
hodie adservantur. 2 pts. 4to. Oxonii, 1852.
Durie, John. The Reformed Librarie Keeper. 1650.
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550
Bibliography to Chapter XIX
Edwards, Edward. Memoirs of Libraries; including a Handbook of
Library Economy. 2 vols. 1859. (A work descriptive of ancient and
medieval libraries and also of the collections subsequently incorporated in
the British Museum; those of the Faculty of Advocates and Writers to
the Signet at Edinburgh; the university and town libraries of Scotland;
the library of Trinity college, Dublin; and the minor libraries of London;
those of the United States and the continent. )
Gasquet, Dom F. A. Some Notes on Medieval Monastic Libraries. (See his
Old English Bible and other Essays (pp. 1-34, and 35-53), 1908. )
Gottlieb, Theodor. Ueber Mittelalterliche Bibliotheken. Leipzig, 1890.
(Supplies useful corrections of and additions to the researches of Ed-
wards: see supra. )
Hales, John. Works. Vol. I. Glasgow, 1765. (Contains his Oration on
Bodley. )
Hardy, Sir T. D. Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts relating to the
History of Great Britain and Ireland. 4 vols. (Rolls Series. )
James, M. R. On the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury. (Cambridge Publica-
tions, Octavo Series, No. XXVIII. )
The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover. Cambridge, 1903.
James, Thomas (15732-1629). Bodley's first librarian. (For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Macray, W. D. Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2nd ed. 1890.
Pietas Oxoniensis in memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knt. , and the Founda-
tion of the Bodleian Library. Oxford, 1902.
Reid, T. D. (d. 1624). "Founder of the first public reference library in
Scotland,' now part of Aberdeen university library. [For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 11. From the Revival
of Learning to the end of the 18th century (in Italy, France, England,
and the Netherlands). Cambridge, 1908.
Traube, L. Die Bibliotheken. In Vorlesungen u. Abhandlungen (ed. Boll. ),
1, 103-127.
Westminster Abbey, The Manuscripts of. By Robinson, J. Armitage and
James, Montague Rhodes. Cambridge, 1909.
## p. 551 (#573) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
g :
ela
877 Death of Johannes Scotus Eri- 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
Mexico.
gena.
1274 Death of Thomas Aquinas. 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
1294 Death of Roger Bacon.
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
1308 (? ) Death of Johannes Scotus at Cambridge.
Duns.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
1349(? ) Death of William of Ockham. Worms.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued. 1527 Death of Machiavelli.
1422–1471 King Henry VI.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication for
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
the Beggars.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus 1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
Legum Angliae.
c. 1529 Latimer's Sermons on the
1478 (? ) First book printed at Oxford. Card.
1483 King Edward V.
1532-1564 Rabelais's Pantagruel.
1483-1485 King Richard III.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1534 Fitzherbert's Husbandry.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavi- 1535 Execution of Fisher.
gates the Cape.
1535 First complete English Bible
c. 1486 The Book of St Albans.
(Coverdale's 1st ed. ) printed.
1488 Library given by Humphrey, 1537 First Bible (Coverdale's 2nd
duke of Gloucester to Oxford ed. ) printed in England.
opened.
1539 "The Great Bible. '
1492 Columbus sets sail from Spain 1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and discovers the West Indies.
and Serche.
The early Oxford press, ‘1468'-1640. Oxford, 1895.
Wilson, J. D. A new tract from the Marprelate press. The Library, 1909,
pp. 225-240. See also chap. XVII and bibliography in vol. III.
Aldis, H. G. A list of books printed in Scotland before 1700. Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society. 1904.
Scottish Bibliography. Scottish Review, xxix, 1897.
Thomas Finlason and his press. Edinburgh Bibliographical Soc.
Papers, I, 1896.
Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. 2. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh, 1836. (For wills
and inventories of Edinburgh printers and stationers. )
Cowan, W. Andro Hart and his press. Edinburgh Bibliographical Soc.
Papers, I, 1896.
Dickson, R. and Edmond, J. P. Annals of Scottish printing to the beginning
of the 17th century. Cambridge, 1890.
Dobson, W. T. History of the Bassandyne Bible. Edinburgh, 1887.
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Papers. 1896 ff.
Edmond, J. P. The Aberdeen printers, 1620–1736. Aberdeen, 1886. Last
notes on the Aberdeen printers. 1888.
Notes on the inventories of Edinburgh printers, 1577-1603. Edinburgh
Bibliographical Soc. Papers, I, 1896.
History of the art of printing. James Watson, Edinburgh, 1713. (For the
history of Scottish printing. )
Lee, J. Memorial for the Bible Societies in Scotland. Edir argh, 1824.
Additional memorial. Edinburgh, 1826. (Contain much information
relating to early Scottish printers. )
Dix, E. R. McC. Catalogue of early Dublin-printed books, 1601-1700. Dublin,
1898-1905.
- List of books, pamphlets, &c. , printed wholly, or partly, in Irish. Dublin,
1905.
35-2
## p. 548 (#570) ############################################
548
Bibliography
Dix, E. R. MoC. The earliest Dublin printers and the Company of Stationers
of London. Bibliographical Soc. Trans. VII, 1904.
The earliest Dublin printing. Dublin, 1901.
The ornaments used by John Franckton, printer at Dublin. Biblio-
graphical Soc. Trans. VIII, 1907.
Printing in the Irish character. (Letters from Bradshaw, H. , to Reed, T. B. )
The Bibliographical Register, 1905.
EARLY TRADE CATALOGUES.
Maunsell, A. The first part of the catalogue of English printed bookes :
which concerneth such matters of divinitie, as have bin either written in
our owne tongue, or translated out of anie other language. 1595.
The seconde parte of the catalogue of English printed bookes . . . which
concerneth the sciences mathematicall, as arithmetick, geometrie, as-
tronomie, astrologie, musick, the arte of warre, and navigation: and also,
of phisick and surgerie. 1595.
Catalogus universalis pro nundinis Francofurtensibus vernalibus, de anno
M. DC. XVII. John Bill, London, 1617.
This list was published twice a year, in April and October, and at least
twenty-four numbers (April 1617 to October 1628) are known to have been
issued. From October 1622 to October 1626, a supplement of Books printed
in English was appended to each number.
A catalogue of such English bookes, as lately have bene, and now are in
printing for publication. From the ninth day of October, 1618, untill
Easter terme next ensuing. And. . . to be continued for every half year.
W. Jaggard, London, 1618. (No further issue has been found. )
A catalogue of certaine bookes which have been published, and (by authoritie)
printed in England, both in Latine and English, since the yeare 1626,
untill November this present yeare 1631. Now published for supply
since the intermission of the English Catalogue, with intention hereafter
to publish it exactly every yeare. London, 1631. (No further issue has
been found. )
Arber, E. Contemporary printed lists of books produced in England.
Bibliographica, vol. 111, 1897.
Growoll, A. Three centuries of English booktrade bibliography. New
York, 1903. (Contains & list, by Eames, W. , of the catalogues, etc. ,
published for the English book trade from 1595-1902. )
BOOKBINDING.
Bagford's Notes on bookbindings. Ed. Davenport, C. Bibliographical Soc.
Trans. VII, 1904.
Brassington, W. S. Historic bindings at the Bodleian Library. 1892.
Catalogue of the exhibition of bookbindings at the Burlington Fine Arts
Club. 1891.
Davenport, C. English embroidered bookbindings. 1899.
English heraldic book stamps. 1909.
Little Gidding bindings. Bibliographica, vol. 11, 1896.
Royal English bookbindings. Portfolio monographs. 1896.
Fletcher, W. Y. English armorial book stamps and their owners. Biblio
graphica, vol. 111, 1897.
English bookbindings. 1896. Rptd from The Portfolio, 1893.
English bookbindings in the British Museum. 1895.
Gibson, S. Early Oxford bindings. Bibliographical Society. 1903.
## p. 549 (#571) ############################################
Chapter XVIII
549
Gibson, S. The localization of books by their bindings. Bibliographical
Soc. Trans. VIII, 1907.
Gray, G. J. The earlier Cambridge stationers and bookbinders. Biblio-
graphical Society. 1904.
Holmes, R. R. Specimens of royal, fine, and historical bookbinding selected
from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 1893.
Horne, H. P. The binding of books, an essay in the history of gold-tooled
bindings. 1894.
Prideaux, s. T. An historical sketch of bookbinding. 1893. (Contains a
chapter on early stamped bindings by Duff, E. G. )
Quaritch, B. Facsimiles of choice examples of historical and artistic book-
binding in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1889.
Weale, W. H. J. Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National
Art Library South Kensington Museum. 2 parts. 1894-8.
Wheatley, H. B.
Remarkable bindings in the British Museum. 1889.
CHAPTER XIX
THE FOUNDATION OF LIBRARIES
Abbott, T K. The Book of Trinity College, Dublin (1591-1891). Belfast
and Dublin, 1892. Chap. VII.
Becker, G. Catalogi Bibliothecarum antiqui. Bonn, 1885.
Botfield, B. Catalogi veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm.
(Edited by B. Botfield. ) Surtees Society. Vol. vii. 1840.
Notes on the Cathedral Libraries of England. 1849.
Bowes, Robt. Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to the University,
Town and County of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893. Cambridge, 1894.
Bradley, J. W. Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and
Copyists. 3 vols. 1887-9.
Bradshaw, H. Collected Papers. Cambridge, 1889.
Camdeni et illustrium Virorum Epistolae. Ed. Smith, T. 1691.
Carlisle, Nich. Endowed Grammar Schools. 2 vols. 1818. Vol. 1, pp. 435-6.
Catalogue of MSS in Cambridge University Library. 5 vols. 1856-61.
Catalogue of MSS in Bodleian collected by Clarke, E. D. 2 vols. 1812-5.
Catalogue of MSS in Bodleian. 13 vols. 1848–56.
Catalogues of the manuscripts in the libraries of Peterhouse, Clare, Pembroke,
Gonville and Caius, Trinity Hall, King's, Queens', Jesus, Christ's, Trinity,
Emmanuel and Sidney Sussex colleges, Cambridge, ed. James, M. R.
Cambridge, v. d.
Clark, J. W. Ancient Libraries: Christ Church, Canterbury. Camb. Antiq.
Soc. Proceedings, vol. VIII, p. 359.
The Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge.
4 vols. Cambridge, 1886.
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. Camb ge, 1894.
The Care of Books. 2nd edition. Cambridge, 1902. (Incorporates a
large proportion of the information respecting libraries in the three
preceding works and also traces; the development of libraries from
antiquity to the end of the 18th century. )
Coxe, H. O. Catalogus Codicum MSS qui in Collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus
hodie adservantur. 2 pts. 4to. Oxonii, 1852.
Durie, John. The Reformed Librarie Keeper. 1650.
## p. 550 (#572) ############################################
550
Bibliography to Chapter XIX
Edwards, Edward. Memoirs of Libraries; including a Handbook of
Library Economy. 2 vols. 1859. (A work descriptive of ancient and
medieval libraries and also of the collections subsequently incorporated in
the British Museum; those of the Faculty of Advocates and Writers to
the Signet at Edinburgh; the university and town libraries of Scotland;
the library of Trinity college, Dublin; and the minor libraries of London;
those of the United States and the continent. )
Gasquet, Dom F. A. Some Notes on Medieval Monastic Libraries. (See his
Old English Bible and other Essays (pp. 1-34, and 35-53), 1908. )
Gottlieb, Theodor. Ueber Mittelalterliche Bibliotheken. Leipzig, 1890.
(Supplies useful corrections of and additions to the researches of Ed-
wards: see supra. )
Hales, John. Works. Vol. I. Glasgow, 1765. (Contains his Oration on
Bodley. )
Hardy, Sir T. D. Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts relating to the
History of Great Britain and Ireland. 4 vols. (Rolls Series. )
James, M. R. On the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury. (Cambridge Publica-
tions, Octavo Series, No. XXVIII. )
The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover. Cambridge, 1903.
James, Thomas (15732-1629). Bodley's first librarian. (For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Macray, W. D. Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2nd ed. 1890.
Pietas Oxoniensis in memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knt. , and the Founda-
tion of the Bodleian Library. Oxford, 1902.
Reid, T. D. (d. 1624). "Founder of the first public reference library in
Scotland,' now part of Aberdeen university library. [For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 11. From the Revival
of Learning to the end of the 18th century (in Italy, France, England,
and the Netherlands). Cambridge, 1908.
Traube, L. Die Bibliotheken. In Vorlesungen u. Abhandlungen (ed. Boll. ),
1, 103-127.
Westminster Abbey, The Manuscripts of. By Robinson, J. Armitage and
James, Montague Rhodes. Cambridge, 1909.
## p. 551 (#573) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
g :
ela
877 Death of Johannes Scotus Eri- 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
Mexico.
gena.
1274 Death of Thomas Aquinas. 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
1294 Death of Roger Bacon.
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
1308 (? ) Death of Johannes Scotus at Cambridge.
Duns.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
1349(? ) Death of William of Ockham. Worms.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued. 1527 Death of Machiavelli.
1422–1471 King Henry VI.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication for
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
the Beggars.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus 1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
Legum Angliae.
c. 1529 Latimer's Sermons on the
1478 (? ) First book printed at Oxford. Card.
1483 King Edward V.
1532-1564 Rabelais's Pantagruel.
1483-1485 King Richard III.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1534 Fitzherbert's Husbandry.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavi- 1535 Execution of Fisher.
gates the Cape.
1535 First complete English Bible
c. 1486 The Book of St Albans.
(Coverdale's 1st ed. ) printed.
1488 Library given by Humphrey, 1537 First Bible (Coverdale's 2nd
duke of Gloucester to Oxford ed. ) printed in England.
opened.
1539 "The Great Bible. '
1492 Columbus sets sail from Spain 1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and discovers the West Indies.
and Serche.
