MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN POST-MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. With a black and white portrait frontispiece and 17 black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

A collection of essays by medieval libraries and manuscripts scholar Andrew George Watson (1924-2017), focused on early manuscript collectors in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Thomas Dackomb, Christopher and William Carye, Robert Green of Welby, Sir Walter Cope, and Henry Savile of Banke.