THE FIRST CAMBRIDGE PRESS IN ITS EUROPEAN SETTING.
The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, 1953. Pp. x+100, frontispiece, plus one plate, 11 full page facsimiles, appendices, index; narrow cr. 4to; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth boards, upper board decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges lightly chipped and split; the free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1955. First edition. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label below two others on the upper pastedown: the earliest being that of W. D. J. Cargill Thompson (1930-1978), Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London. On the upper free endpaper, a pencilled provenance note ('from James Cargill-Thompson's Library, bought 31.1.79') was presumably written by J. F. Fuggles, whose book label is the first on the upper pastedown. John Fuggles, author and Libraries Advisor to the UK National Trust, died in 2002. Item #163150
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