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Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula compiled by Frederick W. Ashley, chief of the Order division
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Db.85
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Thacher, John Boyd, 1847-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Library of Congress. Division of Accessions.
- Library of Congress.
- Incunabula--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Incunabula.
- Physical Description:
- 329 p. : ill., facsim. in color,(port.) ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula.
- Thacher collection of incunabula.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Government Printing Office, 1915.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- John Boyd Thacher : a biographic sketch
- List of works of John Boyd Thacher
- Preface
- Authorities
- Fifteenth century books
- Indexes : I. Countries : II. Towns : III. Printers and publishers : Iv. Authors and books : v. Hain number.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Library of Congress.
- "The ... collection ... was on April 27, 1910, intrusted by Mrs. John Boyd Thacher to the custody of the Library of Congress as a deposit subject to her pleasure."--Introd.
- 840 works; specimens of over 500 presses.
- This volume, with added title and preface, forms the first volume of the catalogue of the collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress, in three volumes. 1931.
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