First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library: 1-2 (Harvard Library Bulletin): 16 - Hardcover

Whitesell, David R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674021452 ISBN 13: 9780674021457

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In 1994, the late James E. Walsh reported that the Harvard collection of 15th Century printed books, the third largest in North America, 'comprises 3,517 editions in 4,187 copies'. Ten years later the count has risen to 3,627 editions in 4,389 copies. Walsh's pioneering catalogue was published in five volumes between 1991 and 1997. This supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes. The initial section of the "First Supplement" consists of selected additions and corrections to the Walsh catalogue. The following section, 'New Entries,' details single leaves and fragments which were previously given only highly selective coverage. The supplement concludes with cumulative references, indices, and concordances. The apparatus follows the Walsh model, and the book is designed to be used both on its own and in conjunction with the five original volumes.

About this title

About the Author:

David R. Whitesell is Rare Book Cataloguer at the Houghton Library of Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0674021452
• ISBN 13: 9780674021457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236