The LibrarySir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis |
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... remains , I suppose , of a primitive system of filing , and then used so that the book could hang conveniently on a peg aboard ship , easy to take down for reference . On the front cover is the title of the volume in a tall uncial ...
... remains , I suppose , of a primitive system of filing , and then used so that the book could hang conveniently on a peg aboard ship , easy to take down for reference . On the front cover is the title of the volume in a tall uncial ...
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... remains a third possibility , viz . that Boccaccio only had a copy of the manuscript , and that it was stolen from Monte Cassino by agents of Niccolò . There was some mystery about this manuscript , and knowledge of it was confined to a ...
... remains a third possibility , viz . that Boccaccio only had a copy of the manuscript , and that it was stolen from Monte Cassino by agents of Niccolò . There was some mystery about this manuscript , and knowledge of it was confined to a ...
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... remains of but the top line of the T is cut away . All ' the watermarks are close into the binding and have been cut by the binder . ' None of the other copies that I have examined have any watermarks . Nearly every copy has an ...
... remains of but the top line of the T is cut away . All ' the watermarks are close into the binding and have been cut by the binder . ' None of the other copies that I have examined have any watermarks . Nearly every copy has an ...
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... Remains of King Edward VI , Roxburghe Club , 1857. The volume , when Mr. Nichols wrote , seems to have had its original binding stamped with E. vi . R. ' and roses and crowns . This was no doubt decayed , as the book now has a modern ...
... Remains of King Edward VI , Roxburghe Club , 1857. The volume , when Mr. Nichols wrote , seems to have had its original binding stamped with E. vi . R. ' and roses and crowns . This was no doubt decayed , as the book now has a modern ...
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... remains for us briefly to consider how this affects the question of the number of compositors who might be employed on a single job . It is evident that whether it affects it or not depends on the nature of the copy . When a printer had ...
... remains for us briefly to consider how this affects the question of the number of compositors who might be employed on a single job . It is evident that whether it affects it or not depends on the nature of the copy . When a printer had ...
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Page 247 - I believe I have discovered the Printer of another, De regimine Ecclesiœ Scoticanœ ; which His Majesty was informed to be done at Middelburg; and that is one William Brewster, a Brownist, who hath been for some years an inhabitant and printer at Leyden : but is now within these three weeks removed from thence and gone back to dwell in London...
Page 88 - Orders and Ordinances for the better government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the lesse.
Page 246 - I have seen within these two days ' a certain Scottish book called Perth Assembly written with ' much scorn and reproach of the proceedings in that Kingdom ' concerning the affairs of the Church. It is without name ' either of author or printer, but I am informed it is printed ' by a certain English Brownist of Leyden, as are most of the ' Puritan books sent over of late days into England.
Page 247 - London where he may be found out and examined, not only of this book, but likewise of Perth Assembly of which if he was not the printer himself he assuredly knows both the printer and author: for, as I am informed, he hath had, whilst he remained here, his hand in all such books as have been sent over into England and Scotland; as particularly a book in folio...
Page 74 - Edward the vith viz. St. Bartholomew's. Christ's. Bridewell. St. Thomas's. By the Maior, Cominaltie, and Citizens of London, Governours of the Possessions, Eevenues and Goods of the sayd hospitalls. [Dated 18 Sept. 1557.] 13. Z. [London,] 1557. 8vo. 288. a. 44. Without pagination. — Another copy. G. 3655. — An Acte of Common Councell, [regulating the payment of " Hallage" dues, by Cloth-Buyers, Sellers, etc.
Page 247 - Scoticance of which I send your Honour the Title Page likewise ; you will find it is the same character. And the one being confessed as that, De vera et genuina Jesu Christi, etc., Religione, Brewster doth openly avow; the other cannot well be denied.
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Page 188 - Arrogance, be affirmed, that,tho' this surprising Narrative be not so replete with vulgar Stories as the former, or so interspersed with a Satirical Vein, as the last of the above-mentioned Treatises...