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  • 1975
    Journal article

    English Bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books 1963 to 1974

    THE most important acquisition of bookbindings during this period has unquestionably been that of the Henry Davis Collection. It is, indeed, far the most important gift of this nature that the Department has ever received, being almost the whole of one of the three great collections of bookbindings made in...
    Nixon, Howard M.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Two missals printed for Wynkyn de Worde

    The British Library has recently acquired two important and exceedingly rare editions of the Sarum Missal. These were produced in Paris in 1497 and 1511 for Wynkyn de Worde and others, and are fully described in the second and third sections of this article. The first section gives a brief...
    Rhodes, George D. ;   Painter, Dennis E. ;   Nixon, Howard M.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Caxton in the British Library

    IN 1877 the four hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first printing press in England was celebrated with, among other things, a staggering exhibition in the National Art Library, South Kensington (now the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Inspired by William Blades, a practical printer, whose biography...
    Nixon, Howard M.
  • 1977
    Journal article

    Foreign bookbindings added to the department of printed books from 1963 to 1974

    IN volume 1, number 2 of The British Library Journal I discussed some of the English bindings acquired by the Department of Printed Books since 1962. This article followed others on acquisitions from 1941 to 1950, from 1952 to 1962, and in 1962, which appeared respectively in the British Museum...
    Nixon, Howard M.
  • 1984
    Journal article

    Day's Service Book,1560-1565

    The period of gestation of this article has been truly elephantine. I first became interested in Day's Service Book in 1934 when working in the Westminster Abbey Library and I solved-to my own satisfaction-the main problem which it presents over twenty years ago. Its publication has, however, been delayed by...
    Nixon, Howard M.