The life of Sir Thomas Bodley / written by himself.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613, author.

Contributor:

Lane, John, 1854-1925, writer of introduction, publisher.

T. and A. Constable, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613--Biography.

Bodley, Thomas.

Bodleian Library--History.

Bodleian Library.

University of Oxford--History.

University of Oxford.

Diplomats--Great Britain--Biography.

Diplomats.

Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

[2], viii, [4], 16, [2] pages, [2] leaves of plates : portrait, illustration, facsimile ; 15 cm

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Reprinted by T. and A. Constable.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Privately reprinted for John Lane and his friends, Christmas 1894.

Notes:

Reprint of the Oxford edition of 1647, with facsimile title page.

Publisher's device on title page includes the text "John Lane, publisher of belles lettres, The Bodley Head, Vigo St., London W."

Frontispiece portrait.

Introduction signed John Lane.

"I have not attempted to add anything fresh [to the 1647 original], except the illustrations"--Introduction, pages vii-viii.

Illustration preceding facsimile title page is "an engraving of the Bodley Medal, struck from the design of Jean Warin"--Introduction, page vii.

Head-pieces and ornate initials.

First 2 unnumbered pages chiefly blank.

LC copy 4 forms part of the personal library materials in the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection.

Cited in:

Krishnamurti, G. Eighteen-nineties, entry 394

Other Format:

Online version: Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613. Life of Sir Thomas Bodley.

OCLC:

4583116