Hobson Anthony

Renaissance Book Collecting : jean grolier and diego hurtado de mendoza, their books and bindings Anthony Hobson - Cambridge cambridge university press 2012 - xix, 275 p. 30 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index

This 1999 book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a larger and more scholarly collection; a full catalogue is provided for the first time. Contains ninety-one half-tones of original bookbindings, several thematic indexes, eleven appendices and a bibliography.

9780521651295


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