° ° Bury, Richard de - Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love o...

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° ° Bury, Richard de - Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love of Books by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, Written in MCCCXLIV, and Translated from the First Edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some collations. 1st edition in English, 8vo, rebound red morocco, with double gilt lined border, gilt lettered spine, marbled end papers, erratum slip present, printed for Thomas Rodd, London, 1832.

Note: First edition in English of the first book on book collecting, by Richard de Bury (1287-1347), one of the first English collectors of books, translated from the Latin by John Bellingham Inglis. This translation contains 35 pages of Inglis’s notes.