Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecae, tractatus pulcherrimus
Subtitle: ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis editio jam secunda : cui accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus : omnia haec, opera & studio T.I. Novi Coll. in alma Academia Oxoniensi socij. B.P.N.
Contributors: James, Thomas, 1573?-1629; Barnes, Joseph, -1618, bookseller
Publisher: Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Oxoniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Book collecting; Libraries; Early works to 1800; Collections; University of Oxford; Manuscripts
Other titles: De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecae, tractatus pulcherrimus; De amore librorum & institutione bibliothecae
Work titles: Philobiblon
Notes: T.I. = Thomas James.

Running title reads: De amore librorum & institutione bibliothecae.

B.P.N. = Bono publico natus--Pforzheimer catalogue.

"The appendix contains the first 'union' catalogue ever attempted at Oxford or, for that matter, anywhere else"--Pforzheimer catalogue.

Another issue of the edition dated 1598, with appendix and an added dedication.

Signatures: *́þ A-Íþ.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 959

English short title catalogue, S104430

Cataloged 20170211 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown goatskin. The title is stamped in gilt on the upper cover. The bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund is present on the front pastedown.