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The Great Book-Collectors

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The Great Book-Collectors

by Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton

EN·~5 hours·18 chapters

Chapters

18 total

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0:55

CHAPTER I. - CLASSICAL.

17:36

CHAPTER II. - IRELAND—NORTHUMBRIA.

20:52

CHAPTER III. - ENGLAND.

20:30

CHAPTER IV. - ITALY—THE AGE OF PETRARCH.

17:14

CHAPTER V. - OXFORD—DUKE HUMPHREY'S BOOKS—THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS.

14:05

CHAPTER VI. - ITALY—THE RENAISSANCE.

18:56

CHAPTER VII. - ITALIAN CITIES—OLYMPIA MORATA—URBINO—THE BOOKS OF CORVINUS.

15:53

CHAPTER VIII. - GERMANY—FLANDERS—BURGUNDY—ENGLAND.

18:28

CHAPTER IX. - FRANCE: EARLY BOOKMEN—ROYAL COLLECTORS.

17:48

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Book-Collectors

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Jul 29, 2006

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18938

Subjects

Book collecting Book collectors -- Biography Z

About the authors

Charles Isaac Elton

1839–1900

Best known as a co-author of The Great Book-Collectors, this Victorian lawyer and antiquary wrote with equal ease about books, old laws, and the deep roots of English history. His work helped bring legal and historical scholarship to a wider reading public.

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Mary Augusta Elton

1838–1914

Best known for co-writing a lively history of bibliophiles, this Victorian author helped turn the world of rare books into an engaging subject for general readers. Her published work is closely tied to literary history, collecting, and the cultured book world of late 19th-century Britain.

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