James, M. R.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum with Introduction and Indices.
Publisher:
At the University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication:
1895
Stock Code:
14999
First edition. Quarto, pp., xlix, 472, plus twenty photogravure plates (numbered to 19, two plates forming a double-page spread) of manuscripts in the catalogue. Publisher’s black buckram, titled in gilt to spine, armorial in gilt to upper board. Book label of one ‘T. MacKenzie Fowler’ to front paste-down. Sympathetically rebacked. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy.
M. R. James' palaeographical and bibliographical catalogue for the Fitzwilliam manuscript collection which describes over 200 items. James is perhaps better known for his ghost story collections, many of which were directly inspired by the images found within the manuscripts he catalogued.
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