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Title: The Great Book-Collectors

Author: Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

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The Great Book-Collectors

By Charles Isaac Elton

Author of 'Origins of English History'
'The Career of Columbus,' etc.

& Mary Augusta Elton

[Illustration]

London

Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., Ltd.

MDCCCXCIII

Contents

PAGE

CHAPTER I.
CLASSICAL 1

CHAPTER II.
IRELAND--NORTHUMBRIA 13

CHAPTER III.
ENGLAND 27

CHAPTER IV.
ITALY--THE AGE OF PETRARCH 41

CHAPTER V.
OXFORD--DUKE HUMPHREY'S BOOKS--THE LIBRARY OF THE VALOIS 53

CHAPTER VI.
ITALY--THE RENAISSANCE 63

CHAPTER VII.
ITALIAN CITIES--OLYMPIA MORATA--URBINO--THE BOOKS OF CORVINUS 76

CHAPTER VIII.
GERMANY--FLANDERS--BURGUNDY--ENGLAND 87

CHAPTER IX.
FRANCE: EARLY BOOKMEN--ROYAL COLLECTORS 99

CHAPTER X.
THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY--FAIRFAX--COTTON--HARLEY--THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 111

CHAPTER XI.
BODLEY--DIGBY--LAUD--SELDEN--ASHMOLE 124

CHAPTER XII.
GROLIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS 139

CHAPTER XIII.
LATER COLLECTORS: FRANCE--ITALY--SPAIN 158

CHAPTER XIV.
DE THOU--PINELLI--PEIRESC 169

CHAPTER XV.
FRENCH COLLECTORS--NAUDE TO RENOUARD 183

CHAPTER XVI.