| Corporate Author |
Martin Breslauer, Inc |
| Title |
Manuscripts and printed books from the thirteenth to the present century on many subjects, including further sections of the library of the late Wilfred Merton, F.S.A. |
| Publisher |
London : Martin Breslauer, 1960 |
| Physical desc. |
144 pages, 26 pages of plates ; illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Catalogue 92. |
| References to manuscripts formerly in the possession of Wilfred Merton: p. 19, lot 28: English breviarium ('Merton MS 16'); p. 25, lot 41: Greek manuscript ('Merton MS 39'). |
| References to books formerly in the possession of Wilfred Merton: p. 57, lot: Charles Butler. Feminine monarchie, or the Histori of bees, Oxford, 1634 ('W. Merton's gilt supra-libros on sides...'); p. 115, lot 377: Charles Darwin. Journal of researches [...] H.M. Ship Beagle, published by Henry Colburn, 1839 (with 'an autograph letter by the author's son, Francis Darwin, dealing with the bibliographical aspects of this issue; it is directed to Wilfred Merton and dated February 1, 1912'); p. 125, lot 400, Robert Bridges. Poems... ('with the Printer's autogr. inscription on the fly-leaf: "Wilfred Merton from C.H. St. J. Hornby Jan. 1922"'); p. 126, lot 407 (John Milton. Paradise regained, 1905 ('interesting association copy' involving Mary Grace Walker, Emery Walker, Henry G. Williams, Frank Kilton, and Wilfred Merton); p. 131, lots 445, 446, and 447 (involving Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers); p. 132, lot 449 (inscription from Bruce Rogers to Merton, 4 May 1917). |
| Sale of Chester Beatty catalogues: p. 134. |
| Person as subject |
Merton, Wilfred -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Latin -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Greek -- Catalogs |
| Rare books -- Catalogs |
| Incunabula -- Catalogs |
| Fine bindings -- Catalogs |
| Illustrated books -- Catalogs |
| Wood-engraving -- Catalogs |
| Reference books -- Catalogs |
| Pamphlets -- Bibliography -- Catalogs |
| Cuneiform tablets -- Catalogs |
