Thomson K R Compiler (1 results)

Large format 17-1/2" x 12" (illustrator). Large format 17-1/2" x 12" Cunningham, W.R., Editor. Thomson, K.R., Compiler. Catalogue of a Collection of Civil and Canon Law Books in the University of Glasgow. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, [1949]. 6314-6322 pp. Large format 17-1/2" x 12" (44.5 cm x 30 cm). Pencilled note 25/125 on front free endpaper. Cloth spine over paper boards. Worn and soiled with missing upper corner of front board. Ex-library with shelf location label to lower corner of front board. Crack to text block before title page. Property stamp to preface, otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $50. * In 1938 the University of Glasgow acquired by purchase from Italy a collection of 262 volumes of commentaries largely civil, but partly also on canon, law. They make up a homogeneneous group, bound uniformly in vellum with titles inscribed in ink by hand on the spines of the books. The dates of publication are mainly of the sixteenth century, but some belong to the seventeenth century and three to the eighteenth. Places of publication lie chiefly in Italy, but French, Swiss, and German printers are also represented. The entries will be incorporated throughout the main Library Catalogue; but it has been thought desirable to bind a few sets of sheets for presentation to certain selected libraries, in order that the existence and contents of this rather unusual collection may be more widely known. (Preface).