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(MANUSCRIPT REFERENCE.) British Museum. [Planta, Joseph.] A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum.
Half-title. Folio, 450x280 mm, original 1/ 4 sheep, spine darkened and damaged, front cover detached; some foxing; uncut. Armorial bookplate of the Right Honorable Sir Vicary Gibbs. [London], 1802
- Notes: first edition of a catalogue of the surviving portion of the collection; in 1731 approximately one fifth of the manuscripts had been destroyed or damaged in a fire. "Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1751-1631) was the most notable collector of manuscripts of the reign of James I"--De Ricci, page 24.
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