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The Great Book-Collectors

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The Great Book-Collectors

by Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton

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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 on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Book-Collectors

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

Release date

2006-07-29

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Public domain in the USA.

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Book collecting Book collectors -- Biography Z

About the authors

Charles Isaac Elton

1839–1900

A Victorian lawyer, antiquary, and politician, he wrote with unusual range about old laws, customs, and the deep roots of English history. His books helped bring scholarly subjects like land tenure, folklore, and early Britain to a wider reading public.

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Mary Augusta Elton

1838–1914

Best known as the co-author of The Great Book-Collectors, this 19th-century English writer helped turn the history of libraries and bibliophiles into an inviting subject for general readers. Her surviving public record is slim, which makes her work itself the clearest window into her interests.

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