BURY, RICHARD de.

Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love og Books: by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Written in MCCCXLIV, and translated from the first Edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some Collations.

London, Printed for Thomas Rodd (by Richard Taylor), 1832.

Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. 11 raised bands. Gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt geometrical borders on covers. Inside gilt limeborders. A neath repair to top of spine. A note on inside front free endpaper states that it was bound by Henderson and Bisset, Scottish bookbinders. VI,151 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. With the engraved bookplate of Thomas Maitland Dundrennan and the Danish bibliophile K.F. Plesner.

First English edition of the famous English translation that appeared anonymous, now known to have been by J. B. Inglis; it followed the edition of 1473, with all its errors and inaccuracies. Bury (1287-1345) was a bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his Philobiblon, written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The "Philobiblon" is considered the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth.

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