Books and readers - Book collectors - Britain - 16-17C

Lot Comprises:

John Ramridge, d. 1568; Thomas Harding, 1516-1572; Henry Joliffe, d. 1573

Christian Coppens, Reading in Exile: The Libraries of John Ramridge (d.1568), Thomas Harding (d. 1572) & Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), Recusants in Louvain, Cambridge, 1993, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Thomas Cranmer, 1489-1556

David G. Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996, 4to., publisher's green boards, backed by tan cloth

Edward Edwards, Lives of The Founders of the British Museum with Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570‐1870, (London, Trübner, 1870), reprint New York, Burt Franklin, 1969, 4to., maroon buckram

Henry VIII, King of England 1491-1547

James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and his wives, London, British Library, 2004, 4to., publisher's crimson cloth, dust jacket

John Dee, 1527-1608

James O. Halliwell, ed., The private diary of Dr. John Dee, and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts : from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge, (London, 1842), reprint [Whitefish, MT], Kessinger Publishing Company, [199-], fol., publisher's wrappers

John Lumley, Baron Lumley, 1534?-1609

Sears Jayne & Francis R. Johnson, ed., The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, London, British Museum, 1956, 4to., publisher's red cloth

William Drummond, 1585-1649

Robert H. MacDonald, The library of Drummond of Hawthornden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1971, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt, dust jacket

John Dee, 1527-1608

Julian Roberts & Andrew G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue, London, Bibliographical Society, 1990, fol., publisher's blue cloth

Edmund Geste, 1514?-1577

David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and His Books: Reconstructing the Library of a Cambridge Don and an Elizabethan Bishop, London, The Biographical Society, 2017, 4to., publisher's blue simulated cloth

Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1602-1650

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, London, British Museum, 1966, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

Andrew Perne, 1519?-1589

David McKitterick, ed., Andrew Perne: Quatercentenary Studies (Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph, 11), Cambridge, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1991, 4to., publisher's wrappers

John Argentine, 1442?‐1508

Dennis E. Rhodes, John Argentine, Provost of King's (c. 1442‐1508): His Life and his Library, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger & Co., 1967, 8vo., publisher's blue printed boards

Robert Cotton, 1571-1631

Colin G.C. Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton (The Panizzi Lectures 1993), London, British Library, 1994, 8vo., publisher's printed blue wrappers

Robert Cotton, 1571-1631

Colin G.C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use, London, The British Library, 2003, 4to., publisher's black cloth gilt

Robert Cotton, 1571-1631

Christopher John Wright, ed., Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, London, British Library, 1997, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Monarchy

Thomas Anthony Birrell, English Monarchs and Their Books: From Henry VII to Charles II (The Panizzi Lectures 1986), London, British Library, 1987, 8vo., publisher's blue printed wrappers

Monarchy

Scot McKendrick, John Lowden & Kathleen Doyle, ed., Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, London, British Library, 2011, fol.

Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

George F. Barwick, A book bound for Mary Queen of Scots : being a description of the binding of a copy of the Geographia of Ptolemy printed at Rome, 1490, with notes on other books bearing Queen Mary's insignia (Bibliographical Society, Illustrated Monographs, 9), London, Printed at the Chiswick press, 1901, fol., publisher's half cloth over brown printed boards, bookplate of William P. Wreden (1910-1995)

Henry VIII, King of England 1491-1547

Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7: The Libraries of King Henry VIII, edited by James P. Carley, London, British Library in association with the British Academy, 2000, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

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