Munby (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974; Barker (Nicolas), born 1932, editor

(21 cm), xiii, 241 pp. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - “This book brings together 18 short pieces by Munby, mostly concerned with particular book collectors (e.g. Heber, Macaulay), or with book collecting in general; note particularly ‘The libraries of English men of letters’ (pp.101-120), an overview of known facts on the collections of English literary figures from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, with extensive references to sale catalogues” (David Pearson, Provenance research in book history: a handbook, London 1994, p.311). ¶ As new.