Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Contributors: Pollard, Alfred W. 1859-1944; James, M. R. 1862-1936; Proctor, Robert, 1868-1903; Duff, E. Gordon 1863-1924; Aldrich, Stephen; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878; Bennett, Richard, 1844-1900; Chiswick Press.; C. Whittingham and Co.
Publisher: Printed at the Chiswick Press
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts -- United States -- Catalogs.; Early printed books -- United States -- Catalogs.; Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs.; Block books -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Illustrated books -- 15th and 16th century.
Genres: Catalogs.; Facsimiles.; Bibliography
Other titles: J. Pierpont Morgan Library :
Notes: "Of this Catalogue of Manuscripts have been printed Five copies on vellum, and One Hundred and Twenty copies on paper.  All for private distribution."--T.p. verso, "Manuscripts".

"Of this Catalogue of Early Printed Books have been printed Five copies on vellum, and One Hundred and Seventy copies on paper.  All for private distribution."--T.p. verso, v. I-III.

T.p. and parts of text printed in red and black.

"The collection of illuminated manuscripts described in the following pages comprises volumes executed at dates as far apart as the seventh and sixteenth centuries and covering a similarly wide range of styles."--Preface, Manuscripts, signed "M. R. James".

"All the English books and all those acquired independently of the purchase of Mr. Bennett's collection, with the exception of the Italian books from the library of Mr. Mitchell, have been catalogued by Mr. E. Gordon Duff, formerly the librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, and well known as the greatest living authority on early English printing ... The descriptions of the books printed in Germany and the Low Countries without illustrations are mainly the work of Mr. Stephen Aldrich, who for many years was in the library of the British Museum, and, until Mr. Proctor's arrival, was the only man there who had made a serious study of its incunabula.  The fine collection of Horae and some of the other French and italian illustrated books were exclusively described by the present writer; the rest of this class jointly by himself and Mr. Proctor, whose classification of the incunabula at the British Museum and Bodleian Library, under their printers, put the study of early printing on a new footing."--Preface, Vol. I, signed "Alfred W. Pollard".

Includes "Indexes: Countries and towns", "Indexes: Printers and publishers" and "Indexes: Authors and books": Vol. III, p. [241]-278.

Printer's device on colophon of each volume.

MASS copy: No. "88".
Table of contents: title: Manuscripts; title: Early printed books, v. I., Xylographica, Germany and Switzerland; title: Early printed books, v. II, Italy and part of France; title: Early printed books, v. III, France (end), the Netherlands, Spain, & England.