The British Librarian: : Exhibiting a Compendious Review Or Abstract of Our Most Scarce, Useful, and Valuable Books in All Sciences, As Well in ... of the Authors, Their Antagonists, &c by William Oldys - 2010-02-22

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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London: T. Osborne, 1738. Book. Good. Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. In 1737 William Oldys, who was later librarian to the Earl of Oxford, published anonymously The British Librarian, in six monthly numbers from January to June, 1737. Among the works discussed are Hakluyt's Voyages, Froissart's Chronicles, Caxton's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Sir Thomas More's English works. Old calf with five raised bands over cords to the spine, worn and rubbed, joints cracked but both boards still attached by the cords, old (19th C.) paper library labels to the spine. Contents good, tight and complete... Pages good, slightly creamed, page edges faded red..

London: Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1738.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [iv], viii, 402pp. []1, A4, b2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4. Contemporary calf, repaired. ESTC T147996; Lowndes 1723.

London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1738. [2], vii, [5], 402pp. With a later engraved portrait of the author bound in. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, recently rebacked, preserving contemporary backstrip. Heavily rubbed. Scattered spotting. The collected edition, with an added index, of English antiquary William Oldys' (1696-1761) bibliographical periodical. Only six issues appeared before the publication was discontinued, with each surveying both manuscript works from the libraries of great contemporary collectors and printed titles including several from Caxton's Westminster press, Pynson's Froissart, Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, Elyot's Boke, Bale's Acts of English Votaries and several classics of seventeenth-century antiquarianism. ESTC T147996.. First edition. 8vo.