Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula.
By: Compiled by Frederick W. Ashley, chief of the Order division.
Contributors: Ashley, Frederick William, 1863-1942.; Thacher, Emma Treadwell.; Library of Congress. Division of Acessions.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Library of Congress. Division of Accessions; Incunabula -- Washington (D.C.) -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
Other titles: John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula.; Thacher collection of incunabula.
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: John Boyd Thacher: a biographic sketch.; title: List of works of John Boyd Thacher.; title: Preface.; title: Authorities.; title: Fifteenth century books.; title: Indexes: I. Countries: II. Towns: III. Printers and publishers: IV. Authors and books: V. Hain number.