Search Results: John Rylands Library from John Atkins

pages numbered 207 – 336, plus 1 plate (page from a Koran, XVI cent.)
Text and plate clean. Good condition.
Contents:
Library notes and news
The Youth of Vergil; by Conway, R S
Notes upon some of the Kuranic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library; by Mingana, A
Steps towards the Reconstruction of the Library of the University of Louvain; by the Editor
Classified list of recent accessions to the Library in Sociology, Philology, Arts, and Literature

48, [1] pages.

Thick paper cover, age-toned at edges, edges slightly creased and with 3 small tears (10 – 15 mms), with a few marks to the rear of cover. Small blue crayon inscription to inner rear cover. Title-page a little dusty with some off-setting. Some off-setting to pages 22 and 23 (see photo). Printed on hand-made paper. A good copy of this very early and interesting description of the library and its contents.
Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

xv, 73, [1] pages, plus black and white plates.
Thick paper cover, page edges a little dusty. Feint foxing to the title-page. Text and plates clean.

Very good condition with description of the library and its contents, list of publications of the library, list of trustees, governors, and principal officers of the library, rules and regulations of the library.

viii, 72 pages, with 8 black and white plates.
Very light foxing to half-title and final 4 pages. Text and plates clean. With compliments slip from the Librarian loosely inserted.
Very good condition, with a short note on the genesis and growth of the library and descriptions of the exhibition items on display in 10 cases: Early Manuscripts, Cicero, Vergil, Poetry, Drama, Oratory, History, Philosophy, English translations, and a few Modern Editions.

xviii, 144 pages.
Thick paper cover, creased and slightly browned at edges, spine slightly browned, internally unmarked and very good. A very good copy with librarian's compliments slip loosely inserted.
A well-illustrated history and profile of one of England's premier libraries.

xiv, 58, [1] pages, plus black and white plates.

Rear end-paper and final few pages wrinkled. Text and plates clean. Pages untrimmed at fore and bottom edges.

Good condition with description of the library and its contents.