British Library Journal (volume 10, number 1, spring 1984)

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An annotated copy of Goldsmith's Life of Nash, 1762
(1984-04)
Jannetta, M. J.
To some it may seem extravagant for a library already endowed with four copies of a book knowingly to acquire a fifth. The copy of the first edition of Oliver Goldsmith's Life of Richard Nash (London, 1762), recently purchased by the British Library will, however, for students of the author, undoubtedly be by far the most interesting and important of any so far located in the British Library or elsewhere. For it contains holograph revisions for the second edition, together with evidence of a collaborating editor.
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Modern bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books, 1974-1983
(1984-04)
Foot, Mirjam M.
The British Library's collection of twentieth-century bookbindings has not received much publicity, overshadowed as it is by the unrivalled collections of bindings from the past. When Howard M. Nixon wrote about the English and foreign bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books between 1963 and 1974 most emphasis was given-and rightly so-to the acquisition of older material, though the six handsome twentieth century French bindings bequeathed to the Library by Major Abbey merited and got an illustration each.
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Two East Slavonic Primers: Lvov, 1574 and Moscow, 1637
(1984-04)
Thomas, Christine
Cultural life in Russia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries differed from cultural life in Western Europe in two important respects. Works of literature and scholarship were not written in the spoken vernacular (Russian), but in Church Slavonic, and the predominant medium for conveying thought was not the printed book, but the manuscript. Printing, which began late-the first explicitly dated Moscow imprint being that of Ivan Fedorov's Apostol (Acts and Epistles) of 1564-was dominated by Church and State and was reserved in the main for the production of generally large-format liturgical works for use in Orthodox Church services. The first printed and dated East Slavonic primer did not appear until 1574. It was a primer for children learning to read not Ukrainian or Russian, but Church Slavonic, and it was printed not within the State of Muscovy, but in Lvov, then in Poland (but now in the Ukrainian SSR). It is the recent acquisition by the British Library of a copy of this significant and rare work (hitherto known only from a copy at Harvard) that has caused this article to be written.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1982: Hispanic section
(1984-04)
Whitehead, H. G.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1982: Hispanic section.
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A Chaucer from Chief Justice Coke's collection
(1984-04)
Hassall, W. O.
The sixteenth-century books acquired by the British Museum Library from Holkham Hall included Chaucer's Workes, printed by John Reynes in 1542 (SFC 5070). This volume belonged to Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke and is no. 861 in his Library Catalogue. L. H. Horstein showed that this actual copy was quoted three times in the second and third parts of Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England (London, 1642-4). In discussing 'Felony in such as use the craft of Multiplication' [i.e. alchemy]. Coke quotes 'the tale of the Channons Yeoman, fo. 63. (in libro meo,)'.
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Benito Monfort, 1716-1785: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
(1984-04)
Whitehead, H. G.
Benito Monfort is the last of the three best-known printers in eighteenth-century Spain to be considered in this series of articles. He is generally thought to be the most gifted of a group of printers centred in Valencia and in a wider context he is regarded by some as not much inferior to Ibarra himself.
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Day's Service Book,1560-1565
(1984-04)
Nixon, Howard M.
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 my preoccupation with writing about the history of bookbinding, by my fear of betraying my ignorance of the insides of books, and finally by a tendency to amuse myself by trying it out as a testing-ground for different methods of bibliographical proof.
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British Library Journal (volume 10, number 1, spring 1984)

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