Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Cicero: the fourteenth Philippic oration, tr. by J.A. Prout
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Bulletin de l'UNESCO á l'intention des bibliothéques
Author: UnescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange of publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
English Translations from the Greek
Author: Finley Melville Kendall FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Early Oxford Press
Author: Falconer MadanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Franco-Gallia
Author: Francis HotomanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752365188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman
The Care of Books
Author: John Willis ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Philobiblon
Author: Richard De BuryPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.