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Collecting, Collectors, and the Book Trade
Essays in honour of Richard A. Linenthal
Edward Potten, Satoko Tokunaga (eds)
- Pages: xii + 518 p.
- Size:200 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:10 b/w, 159 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
- € 125,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-915487-60-5
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (May/26)
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An important and exciting collection of 45 essays which contribute much to our understanding of the collecting of the written and printed word.
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BIO
Edward Potten is an academic who works on block books, single leaf prints, and early incunabula and is currently Principal Consultant on the AHRC/DFG project ‘Werck der Bücher’ - Transitions, Experimentation, and Collaboration in Reprographic Technologies, 1440-1470. He also works as an antiquarian bookseller and as a consultant for private collectors and institutions with special collections.
Satoko Tokunaga is Professor of Faculty of Letters, Keio University. Her research interests include Medieval English literature, European early printing and the reception of Western rare books in Japan.
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 moralisee
Lucy Freeman Sandler
Greater than the Sum of its Parts: A Previously Unstudied Sequence of Miniatures Illustrating Jean Mielot’s Romuleon
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 Maaeo 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
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