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BROOKE, THOMAS, Sir. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books . . . preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield. Plates. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, original boards, spines darkened, covers lightly soiled; free endpapers browned; uncut. Laid in is an 1891 ALS from Brooke to an unidentified recipient presenting this set. London, 1891
first edition. one of 100 sets, printed at the Chiswick Press. Described on pages 662-81 are 170 volumes from the collection formed in the 16th century by the Pillone family of Belluno, with fore-edge paintings and decorated covers traditionally ascribed to Cesare Vecellio. De Ricci, pages 167-68; Hobson, "The Pillone Library," The Book Collector, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1958), page 30.
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