Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge / [general editor, Robert Latham].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pepys Library.

Contributor:

Latham, Robert, 1912-1995.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pepys Library--Catalogs.

Pepys Library.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations (part color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Eng.] : D.S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield, 1978-

Summary:

To bibliographers and to historians of culture in the widest sense (this) up-to-date author-title catalogue, giving the place, imprint and date of publication together with the entry numbers, where appropriate, of Pollard and Redgrave and Wing, will need no recommendation. Its contents (are) as near to an epitome of late 17th-century English civilisation as we are likely to find. RICHARD OLLARD, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTSamuel Pepys's great collection is the finest surviving seventeenth-century library and one of the major libraries of the world despite its relatively modest size. It is as remarkable as the Diary itself, and comprises some 3,000 volumes of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in artistically important bindings, many political papers (especially concerning the Navy), a great collection of ballads, seventeenth-century music, calligraphy, maps, and a large collection of prints and drawings of historical and artistic interest.

Contents:

v. 1. Printed books / compiled by N.A. Smith assisted by H.M. Adams and D. Pepys Whiteley.

v. 2. Ballads

v. 3. Prints and drawings. pt. 1. General / compiled by A.W. Aspital.

v. 4. Music maps and calligraphy.

v. 5. Manuscripts.

pt. 1. Medieval / compiled by R. McKitterick and R. Beadle.

dpt. 2. Modern / compiled by C.S. Knighton.

v. 6. Bindings / compiled by Howard M. Nixon.

v. 7 Facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue. 2 v.

Notes:

Vols. 3, pt. 1; 6 have imprint: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A. : Rowman & Littlefield.

ISBN:

0859910253

OCLC:

4275057