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Fitzwilliam Museum McClean Bequest - Catalogue of the Early Printed Books Bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. (Paperback)
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Fitzwilliam Museum McClean Bequest - Catalogue of the Early Printed Books Bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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Frank McClean (1837-1904) was not only an astronomer and pioneer of
objective prism spectrography, but also an accomplished and
systematic collector of art, books and manuscripts. McClean's
collections, which were left to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
on his death, were at that time the most notable bequest since the
Museum's foundation. The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed
books in his bequest, most of them produced in continental Europe,
are described here in detail, with bibliographical descriptions and
information on their provenance. Illustrated books are listed
separately. The author of the catalogue, Charles Edward Sayle
(1864-1924) was an erudite and popular librarian whose career was
devoted to cataloguing and editing rare books in the University of
Cambridge. His obituary praised him as 'a fine example of the type
of man who likes to catalogue things in the right order'.
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