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Cambridge. Used - Acceptable. No dust jacket. Very Good or better condition.

Cambridge University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dark blue cloth, octavo. 177 pages. Color frontis of Phillipps in 1934. Illustrated. Interior near fine in very good cover which has some fading at edges. No dust jacket.

Cambridge University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dark blue cloth, octavo. 227 pages, appendices. Frontis photograph of Thomas Phillipps in 1860. Illustrated.. Interior fine, cover has a small white stain to front. No dust jacket.

Phillipps Studies No. 4 at head of title. Includes a decade-by-decade account of Phillipps' collecting; Appendix A: The sources from which Phillipps obtained MSS. 10818-23837; and Appendix B: Sir Thomas Phillipps as a patron of artists and a collector of pictures and drawings, by A. E. Popham. xvi, 227 pages, black & white portrait frontispiece plus ten plates; 21.5 cm. Bound in navy cloth, covers stained, wrinkled; ex- Library of Congress with "Accountability Cancelled" stamps in profusion; Good. Stock#ofc0564.

"After the sad, and at times more than a little mad, history of Phillipps's personal relationships described in my previous volume, it is with relief that I turn to my main task, the history of the Phillipps library. The account of the formation of the collection will occupy two numbers of Phillipps Studies, and a further number will be devoted to a record of its dispersal. The present volume, describing the acquisition of manuscripts Nos. 1-10817 and printed books Nos. 1-5557, depicts in outline the collector's activities up to the year 1840. In it I have attempted to trace the origins of the 'vello-mania' which took possession of Phillipps, body and soul, and to describe the sensational purchases which he made by seizing the golden opportunities open to a collector who visited the Continent during the 1820's" (Preface). xii, 177 pages, color portrait frontispiece, 11 black & white plates; 22 cm. Bound in navy cloth, spine stamped in gold; ex-Library of Congress with "Accountability Cancelled"… Read More

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Cambridge: The University Press, 1956. First edition, xvi, 227, [1]pp., ex-library, illustrs., orig. cloth.

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1956. First edition. Fine/near fine. 227pp, hardbound in Fine condition with dustjacket in Near Fine condition. Volume 4 of this 5 volume set. Bookplate in inner front cover

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