Research Catalog

Title

Holkham Library : a history and description / D.P. Mortlock ; with a foreword by the Earl of Leicester.

Author

Mortlock, D. P.

Publication

• [London] : For presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006.
• [London] : [Maggs Brothers]
• Otley, Yorkshire : Smith Settle.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leicester, Edward Coke, Earl of, 1936-2015
• Roxburghe Club.
• Smith Settle (Firm), printer, binder.
• Geoff Green Book Design (Firm), book producer.

Description

xv, 140 pages : 56 color illustrations (includes facsimiles); 36 cm

Summary

"A detailed description and history of one of the world's finest private libraries, much of which was acquired by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) who built Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The family has added to it and sustained it ever since. The core of the collection concentrates on the Renaissance, however a wide variety of interests are represented, for instance there are Sir Edward Coke's 14th century English manuscripts, a remarkable collection of Civil War and Commonwealth pamphlets, some early broadsides of the Virginia Company, and many other treasures"--Roxburghe Club website, viewed August 11, 2016.

Subjects

• Private libraries
• Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 1697-1759
• Rare books
• Holkham Library History
• History
• Private libraries > England > Holkham > History
• Holkham Hall (England)
• Holkham Library
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Centaur (Monotype)
• England > Holkham
• Libraries
• Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 1697-1759 > Library > History
• Rare books > England > Holkham

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur (Monotype)
• History.

Note

• "Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006. 300 copies of this special edition have been printed of which 200 are for sale"--Title page verso.
• "Ordinary edition: 200 copies bound in full green library buckram blocked in gilt on front and spine ... Special edition: 39 copies for sale (of 100) bound in quarter green niger with library buckram sides, blocked in gilt on front and spine"--Roxburghe Club website, viewed August 11, 2016.
• "100 copies of the leather-bound volume have been numbered. This is number ..."--Title page verso, special edition.
• "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe Club by the Earl of Leicester"--Page v.
• "Designed in Monotype Centaur and produced by Geoff Green Book Design, Cambridge. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Smith Settle, Otley, Yorkshire on Zanders 200gsm Pure Creme"--Title page verso.
• Name of distributor from prospectus.
• List of members of the Roxburghe Club in 2006: page vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's green buckram, stamped in gilt.
• Publisher's quarter green niger and green buckram, stamped in gilt.

Call Number

*KP+ (Roxburghe) 09-164

ISBN

• 1901902099
• 9781901902099

OCLC

68111501

Author

Mortlock, D. P., author.

Title

Holkham Library : a history and description / D.P. Mortlock ; with a foreword by the Earl of Leicester.

Publisher

[London] : For presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006.

Distributor

[London] : [Maggs Brothers]

Manufacturer

Otley, Yorkshire : Smith Settle.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Copy in *KP+ (Roxburghe) 09-164: ordinary edition, unnumbered.

Copy in *KP+ (Roxburghe) 16-70: no. 90 of the special edition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.

Binding

Ordinary edition: Publisher's green buckram, stamped in gilt.

Special edition: Publisher's quarter green niger and green buckram, stamped in gilt.

Local Note

Copy in *KP+ (Roxburghe) 09-164: Prospectus (4 unnumbered pages) laid in.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

England London.

England Otley (Yorkshire)

Added Author

Leicester, Edward Coke, Earl of, 1936-2015, writer of foreword.

Roxburghe Club.

Smith Settle (Firm), printer, binder.

Geoff Green Book Design (Firm), book producer.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Roxburghe) 09-164

*KP+ (Roxburghe) 16-70