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BIBLIO BROOKE, THOMAS, Sir. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books . . . preserved at Armitage Bridge House. 2 vols. 1891
BROOKE, THOMAS, Sir. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books . . . preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield. Plates. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, original boards, lightly soiled; endpapers browned; uncut. London, 1891
- Notes: first edition. one of 100 sets, printed at the Chiswick Press. Described on pages 662-81 are 170 volumes from the collection formed in the 16th century by the Pillone family of Belluno, with fore-edge paintings and decorated covers traditionally ascribed to Cesare Vecellio. De Ricci, pages 167-68; Hobson, "The Pillone Library," The Book Collector, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1958), page 30.
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