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MARC Record from Library of Congress

Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part02.utf8:136422109:1501
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01501cam a22002771 4500
001 16015051
003 DLC
005 20050730202959.0
008 831202s1907 enk bc 000 0 eng
010 $a 16015051
035 $a(OCoLC)10181083
040 $aDLC$cOCU$dOCU$dDLC
042 $apremarc
050 00 $aZ6623$b.T592
100 1 $aThompson, Henry Yates,$d1838-1928.
245 12 $aA descriptive catalogue of twenty illuminated manuscripts,$bnos. LXXV to XCIV. (Replacing twenty discarded from the original hundred:)$cin the collection of Henry Yates Thompson ...
260 $aCambridge [Eng.]$bUniversity Press,$c1907.
300 $avi p., 1 l., 156 p.$c28 cm.
500 $aTitle vignette.
500 $aOn cover: Third series (substitutes)
500 $aAuthor's presentation copy: no. 47.
500 $a"Since the publication ... of the Descriptive catalogue of my illuminated manuscripts in 1898 and 1902, I have ... found it expedient not to increase the number of these precious books in my library beyond the one hundred therein described. My plan has been never to buy any additional volume unless it was decidedly superior in value and interest to one at least of my original hundred and upon its acquisition to discard the least fascinating of the said hundred."--Pref.
650 0 $aManuscripts$zGreat Britain$vCatalogs.
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts$vCatalogs.
610 20 $aCatholic Church$xLiturgy and ritual$vBibliography.
630 00 $aBible$vBibliography.