Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecae, tractatus pulcherrimus : ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis editio jam secunda : cui accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus : omnia haec, opera & studio

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ON BOOR COLLECTI . Richard of Bury is a nante honoured by every lover of book8. He was the son os Richard Angraville, and was born, as his name implies, at Bury St. Edmund's. He roseto Considerable eminenCe, and was sent on severat important diplomatiC missioris, in the Course ofone of which he made the acquaintance, and beCame the fast friend, of the poet Petrarch. Asteryears os travel and other activities Richard retired to the seclusion of his library and wrote the bookon which his fame resis. It is a fatilis ut record of the lise of this book collector of olden time. Hetelis iis how he collected his vellum troasures his P cra kling tomes V so ricli in illuminations and Calligraphic art l-how he preserved them, and how he would have others read them. We learias rom the prologue to this rare and Charming litile volume how true and genuine a bibliophilehe was, sor he telis his there that a vehement love of books had so powerfully seiged ali the faculties of his mirad, that dismissing ali other avocations he applied the ardour of his thoughis to the acquisition of books. This edition also has another interest : the last fix pages consist os a list os medieval MSS. avallabie in Oxford . This is the earliest printed catalogue of Omord manusCriptS. The book was edited by Dr. Thomas James some years bes ore he hecame Bodley's Librarian. By Curious coincidetice it is dedicated to Sir Thomas Bodley.