Elton, Charles, and Mary Elton

The Great Book-Collectors

London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co, 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Brown cloth, with gilt lettering and illustration, gilt lettering on spine, wear to extremities, some pages untrimmed. Front paste down endpaper has book plate of " Lord Elton of Headington Oxon" and in ink, handwritten "Godfrey Elton. 1925." Elton was a historian and politician. Ten illustrations. Frontispiece of Fabri De Peiresc with tissue guard. History of books including classical, Ireland, Italy, England and other European countries, and book collectors such as Bodley, Ashmole, and Grolier. 228 pp. Good +. Item #340

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