‎Edward Potten, Satoko Tokunaga (eds)‎
‎Collecting, Collectors, and the Book Trade. Essays in Honour of Richard A. Linenthal‎

‎, Harvey Miller, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xii + 518, Size:200 x 280 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 159 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781915487605.‎

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‎Summary Presented on the occasion of Richard A. Linenthal's seventieth birthday in June 2026, this book is a tribute to his learning, his passion, his friendship, and his capacity to enthuse and inspire others. In a 50-year career as an antiquarian bookseller, first with Bernard Quaritch Ltd., then latterly under his own name, Richard has found a home for many of the most important books to have passed through the trade. Equally happy working with institutions and private collectors, Richard's enthusiasm and friendship have been central to building collections around the world. His influence and impact can be seen in libraries across the UK and the US, but also in Japan, where he was central to the development of both academic and private libraries. Among the contributors are collectors, friends, family, colleagues, librarians, curators, and scholars and the contributions are as varied as Richard's own interests, encompassing book history, the book trade, antiquities, manuscript studies, provenance research and library history. An important and exciting collection of 45 essays which contribute much to our understanding of the collecting of the written and printed word. TABLE OF CONTENTS For Richard A. Linenthal Edward Potten & Satoko Tokunaga Introduction Nicholas Poole-Wilson 1 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS Images of the Destruction, Salvage, and Restoration of Books in the Bible moralis e Lucy Freeman Sandler Greater than the Sum of its Parts: A Previously Unstudied Sequence of Miniatures Illustrating Jean Mielot's Romul on Scot McKendrick The Powis Hours and the Daughters of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland Michelle P. Brown The Fitton Hours at Keio University Library Takami Matsuda Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Collect-Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of c. 1470?1480 James H. Marrow 2 MANUSCRIPTS, TEXTS, AND SCRIBES A Man of Sound Mind: The Last Will and Testament of Julius Pompeianus Gifford Combs Tracing Modifications in a Script: The Maurdramnus Script of Corbie David Ganz An Illustrated Riddle and the Teaching of Vergil in Twelfth-Century Gembloux Robert Babcock A Poet-Prince's Payment to a Scribe Henri Schiller The Benedictional of Robert de Clercq, Abbot of Les Dunes (Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.4.1) Patrick Zutshi A Newly Discovered Work by Mellin de Saint-Gelais: 'Espitre de la vertue d'amitie et de paix Au Roy mon souverain seigneur' Eugenio Maria Donadoni Philip Absalom: A Nineteenth-Century Scribe and Artist A. S. G. Edwards 3 FRAGMENTS AND BINDINGS Fragments of Virgil Christopher de Hamel An Early Eleventh-Century Musical Fragment from Christ Church, Canterbury Susan Rankin Fragments and Waste Leaves of Incunabula in Eton College Library John Goldfinch Stationery Bindings: A Law Story Paul Halliday Printed Fragments in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Bookbindings David Pearson Thomas Hearne's Manuscript and Printed Fragments H. R. Woudhuysen 4 XYLOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING Dating Single Leaf Prints: The Mount of Olives of the Mazarine Bible Edward Potten Spending Fragments of Time with Early Proof Corrections Lotte Hellinga Exemplaires disparu: In Search of Maffeo Pinelli's Mainz Bible of 1462 Eric Marshall White On Profit and Gatherings: Reading a Colophon of Nicolaus Wola and Badius Ascensius Kristian Jensen Escape from San Zanipolo Martin Davies English Xylographic Folded Almanacs Kathleen Doyle Gutenberg Portraiture in Pre-War Monuments Margaret Lane Ford 5 COLLECTING AND COLLECTORS To Found an Academic Library in the Isle of Man: The Catalogue of Lord Fairfax's Shipment of Printed Books in 1659 Nicholas Poole-Wilson The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville and the 'Perfect Book' Karen Limper-Herz The Gift of Books after the Great Kanto Earthquake Satoko Tokunaga The Acquisition and Deaccession of Two and a Half Tons of Sir Thomas Phillipps' Manuscripts Martin Schoyen Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Manuscripts: A Handlist of the Collection of C. H. St John Hornby William P. Stoneman 6 THE BOOK TRADE An Unrecorded English Frankfurt Fair Catalogue, 1617 Giles Mandelbrote Dear Mr Harper, Dear Mr Goldschmidt Felix de Marez Oyens Bindings under the Hammer Mirjam Foot William H. Scheide's Purchase of a Forged Columbus Letter Paul Needham 7 ADVERSARIA A Medieval Seal Matrix Nicolas Barker On Origins, Memories, and Marbles Amy Linenthal Halliday Where Did it Come from? Larry Wallace Recollections of an Only Child Justin G. Schiller A Tokyo Memoir: A First Folio, but No American Football Toshiyuki Takamiya Memories of Life at Bernard Quaritch Celia Cammarota & Dinah Swayne Noel MS1: The Dring-Linenthal-Noel Staunton Land Deed of 1378 Lynn Ransom with Edward Potten The Oracle of Hastings Speaks Michael Zinman List of Contributors Indices‎