The Liber Epistolaris of Richard de Bury

Ricardus d' AUNGERVILLE, Bishop of Durham.; Noel Denholm Young; Roxburghe Club.

Oxford University Press, 1950

Super limited edition, "50 copies are to be offered for sale, of a total of 100 printed."   Folio, 35 cm.  Publisher's quarter morocco. Gilt spine; top edges gilt. Corners slightly bumped.  lxvi, 383 pages.  Half-title; title in red and black; 7 facsimile plates (1 double-page).  Limited Edition of this collection of Latin letters originally written by Bishop Richard de Bury (1286 - 1345). De Bury was noted as writing the first recorded book on bibliophily in England, "the Philobiblon," The love of books. He founded Durham College at Oxford. 

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