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The Great Book-Collectors

by Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

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  1. 1Chapter I — Classical
  2. 2Chapter II — Ireland — Northumbria
  3. 3Chapter III — England
  4. 4Chapter IV — Italy — The Age of Petrarch
  5. 5Chapter V — Oxford — Duke Humphrey’s Books — The Library of the Valois
  6. 6Chapter VI — Italy — The Renaissance
  7. 7Chapter VII — Italian Cities — Olympia Morata — Urbino — The Books…
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Germany — Flanders — Burgundy — England
  9. 9Chapter IX — France: Early Bookmen — Royal Collectors
  10. 10Chapter X — The Old Royal Library — Fairfax — Cotton — Harley — The…
  11. 11Chapter XI — Bodley — Digby — Laud — Selden — Ashmole
  12. 12Chapter XII — Grolier and His Successors
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Later Collectors: France — Italy — Spain
  14. 14Chapter XIV — De Thou — Pinelli — Peiresc
  15. 15Chapter XV — French Collectors — Naudé to Renouard
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Later English Collectors

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