Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfread H. Huth
by (HUTH, Alfred H.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Trustees [of the British Museum], 1912. First edition. Folio. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Huth after Emery Walker, 18 plates, numerous illustrations in the text. xvi, 130 pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine titled in gilt; some fading to spine and portions of covers Introduction by A. W. Pollard, Preface by F. G. Kenyon. Catalogue of the 13 manuscripts, 36 printed books, and a collection of 75 Elizabethan broadside ballads that comprised Huth's posthumous gift to the British Museum
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100727
- Title
- Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfread H. Huth
- Author
- (HUTH, Alfred H.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Trustees [of the British Museum]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
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