Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His catalogue of the extensive manuscript holdings of Trinity College, Cambridge was first published in 1900-4. This is the third volume.

This 1902 book, originally intended for private circulation, is a memoir of George Smith (1824-1901), founder, proprietor and publisher of The Cornhill Magazine and later the Dictionary of National Biography. The small volume, compiled by Smith's wife, consists of a memoir of Smith by Sidney Lee, followed by four short autobiographical pieces that Smith wrote for The Cornhill. He recalls his years at the publishing house of Smith, Elder and Co.; his encounters with Charlotte Bronte, who stayed with the Smiths in London; his idea of founding a magazine; and the 'lawful pleasures' of court cases for libel. The final item is Sir Leslie Stephen's obituary of Smith, first published in The Cornhill. The book, illustrated with two portraits of Smith, and a photograph of his memorial tablet in St Paul's Cathedral, provides an engaging portrait of a significant Victorian publisher and man of letters.

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of 183 Latin manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, originally published in 1921, is still much sought after by librarians and researchers. Volume 1 contains the text and Volume 2 consists of 187 plates illustrating varieties of scripts, decorations and covers.

Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer specialising in the early history of the printed book. This biographical dictionary, first published in 1905, contains short accounts of the lives of printers, bookbinders and booksellers working in England up to 1557, and remains a standard reference work.

First published in 1837, Hannett's Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients is a small but comprehensive physical history of the book as object. He outlines the forms which books took over the centuries, but concentrates on the craft of bookbinding, past and present.

First published in 1888, Modern Printing Machinery remains a valuable work on the mechanisation of the printing industry in the nineteenth century. It contains detailed information, with illustrations, on all the machinery then in use. It will be of interest to book historians, printers, engineers and industrial archaeologists.

First published in 1900, these two volumes contain the memoirs of William Tinsley (1830-1900), a noted Victorian publisher. Each chapter consists of a series of brief sketches of authors and other contemporaries, describing Tinsley's life and career and providing valuable insights into the world of nineteenth-century publishing.

In the early twentieth century an attempt was made to catalogue Samuel Pepys' library of 3000 volumes that had been bequeathed to Magdalene College, Cambridge. Four volumes were produced and Cambridge University Press make these valuable reference works available again.

This 1872 analytical catalogue investigates editions of the Authorised Version of the Bible published from 1611 to 1711. It provides interesting examples of the errors and alterations that could affect even a book as important as the Bible in an age of contention and diverse publishing practices.

Published in London in 1893, the year before his death, Henry Vizetelly's two-volume autobiography recalls his eventful career as a journalist, writer and publisher. His book is a fascinating blend of political, social and personal history, and reflects the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century London, Paris and Berlin.

Published in 1893, this lively biography of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825-1891) contains a wealth of fascinating personal, political and social detail, from the newspaper wholesaler's time-critical early-morning despatch operations to late-night dinners with prime ministers and aristocrats.

M. R. James's two-volume descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge is still highly valued by librarians and researchers for its detailed content and outstanding scholarship.

Volume 1 (1900) of this catalogue lists rare incunabla and early printed books by such printers as Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde. Each entry contains a short transcription of the title page, the library classmark, references to standard bibliographical works, and notes on the provenance and features of specific copies.

M. R. James' magisterial catalogue of the McClean Collection of manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, describes the 201 manuscripts bequeathed to the Museum in 1904 by Frank McClean. This book, illustrated with 108 plates, is still of value to researchers today.

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His catalogue of the manuscript holdings of Emmanuel College was first published in 1904.

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His catalogue of the extensive manuscript holdings of Trinity College, Cambridge was first published in 1900-4. This is the fourth and final volume.

Described by the author as 'a storehouse of biographical and bibliographical anecdote', this two-volume autobiography, published in 1836, recounts the life and work of the renowned English bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847). Dibdin focuses especially on his formative years, his publications and his love of books and libraries.

M.R. James's detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His catalogue of the extensive manuscript holdings of Trinity College, Cambridge was first published in 1900-4. This is the first volume.

This is the third of four volumes that resulted from an uncompleted project to catalogue Samuel Pepys's library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. It describes the medieval manuscripts in Pepys' collection, which mostly contain secular and vernacular texts. This book is still a valuable resource for medievalists and Pepys scholars alike.

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His catalogue of the extensive manuscript holdings of Gonville and Caius College was first published in 1907-8, and a supplement appeared in 1914. This is the first volume.

Published in 1803, this is the first of a three-volume descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew codices in the personal library of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742-1831), an authority on Hebrew texts and their variant manuscript readings. Each codex is numbered and its contents described in Latin.

John Johnson (1777-1848) produced this study of the history and art of printing in 1824. Volume 1 deals with the history of printing, and is chiefly derived from the work of other writers, although is still of interest to bibliographers. It contains details of early English books and printers, with illustrations.

First published posthumously, Annals of a Publishing House contains the early history of the influential Scottish publishing house, William Blackwood and Sons, by one of its most successful authors, Mrs Oliphant. Volume 1 covers the early history of the firm, the Edinburgh Magazine, its writers and rivals.

Written in 1870, this two-volume work covers the period 1570-1870. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation collections', including Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose bequest of his collections to George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum, and the administrators and early donors.

This monumental 1859 book describes the evolution of libraries in Britain, Europe and America from antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century. It examines numerous ecclesiastical, university and civic libraries, and concludes with the author's views on all aspects of library management, focusing particularly on the municipal libraries he fervently promoted.

James Grant was an influential early Victorian journalist and newspaper editor. He published two books about London in 1838, and this two-volume work from 1839 was intended as a sequel. It reflects upon places, events, and people, mixing general observations and intricate detail. Volume 1 focuses on central London.

This is the second of four volumes that resulted from an uncompleted project to catalogue Samuel Pepys's library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. It includes an introduction to the library and its history, and a descriptive catalogue of early printed books, including liturgical books and works by Malory and More.

This is the first of four volumes that resulted from an uncompleted project to catalogue Samuel Pepys's library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. It describes manuscripts relating to maritime and naval matters. Pepys had planned to write a history of the navy, and assembled most of this material for that purpose.

This four-volume work on the early history of printing, published between 1810 and 1819, was enlarged by Thomas Frognall Dibdin from the previous works of Joseph Ames and William Herbert. The lives of Ames and Herbert are followed by discussions of printers from Caxton to Thomas Hacket in the late 1500s.

Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) was employed as librarian for life by the bibliophile aristocrat George Spencer (1758-1834), who amassed at Althorp the greatest private library in Europe. Published in 1822, these two volumes include additions to Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series) and detailed descriptions of the interiors of Althorp.