A Guide to English Illustrated Books, 1536-1603
Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram

"…this publication goes far beyond anything that the modesty of its title might imply. … It would be difficult to overstate the importance of this book to historians across the widest imaginable range of disciplines." -- Imago Mundi, The International Journal for the History of Cartography

"It is also a treasure for any individual working in sixteenth-century history, its ideological structures, and its iconography. …this guide will join the ranks of indispensable reference works." -- Sixteenth Century Journal

"The whole work is well-conceived and designed to be permanently useful, not only the product of scholarship itself but inevitably the mainspring of future scholarship on early English illustration." -- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

1998 / 1,168 pages in 2 volumes / 217 illus. / 86698-207-8 / MR166 / $75, £53

Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists

R. J. Fehrenbach, general editor
Joseph L. Black and E.S. Leedham-Green, editors

Available in North America from MRTS through Cornell University Press Services (see order form), outside North America from Adam Matthew Publications Ltd, Pelham House, London Road, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2AA, England.

This series provides substantial information about English private libraries compiled from manuscript sources (e.g., account books, wills, probate records), presented in detailed entries, and including summary biographical and bibliographical information for each collection.

"The whole project is eminently worthwhile, and its completion will be an invaluable factual addition to our knowledge of English intellectual life in the Renaissance."
-- Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography

"...offers potential every bit as great as the STC." -- The Book Collector

"...a pretty bold venture...more volumes of PLRE are eagerly awaited." -- Times Literary Supplement

"...by its clear presentation and by its exhaustive indexes will prove to be an invaluable working tool to anyone interested in the history of education, and in the complex interplay between social and intellectual history." -- Bibliothèque d'Humanism et Renaissance

Volume I, PLRE 1-4
Describes 1,387 books in four libraries (Bishop, Richard Cox, Sir Edward Stanhope, Sir Roger Townshend, and Sir Edward Dearing.)
1992 / 352 pages / 86698-099-7 / MR87 / $30 $15, £26

Volume II, PLRE 5-66
Volumes II-VII inventory approximately 9,000 books in the libraries of 166 scholars and privileged persons at Oxford between 1507 and 1653.
1993 / 320 pages / 86698-151-9 / MR105 / $30 $15, £26

Volume III, PLRE 67-86
1994 / 320 pages / 86698-170-5 / MR117 / $30 $15, £26

Volume IV, PLRE 87-112
1995 / 384 pages / 86698-188-8 / MR148 / $30 $15, £26

Volume V, PLRE 113-137
1998 / 420 pages / 86698-231-0 / MR189 / $30, £26

Volume VI, PLRE 138-150
2004 / 420 pages / 86698-313-9 / MR271 / $30, £26

Volume VII, PLRE 151-166
This volume completes the editing of the Oxford book-lists begun with Vol. II.
2009 / xxxiii + 366 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-398-3 / MR370 / $60, £43

Sale price valid only for North American orders.

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Libri Pertinentes

Dr. Elisabeth Leedham-Green, general editor

These works complement our Private Libraries in Renaissance England series. Libri Pertinentes aims to present evidence for substantial libraries, specialist and general, private and institutional, from 1500 to 1700. Each volume includes an introductory essay and an index of authors.

Available in North America from MRTS through Cornell University Press Services (see order form), outside North America from:

LP Publications
Little Kersland
Gazeley Road
Cambridge, CB2 2HB
United Kingdom
www.lppublications.co.uk

The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire (1670)
Hendrik Dijkgraaf

The Holbeck catalogue is apparently the only recorded 17th-century Jesuit missionary library. There are of course several catalogues of Jesuit institutional libraries in France, Germany and elsewhere, but these are libraries solely for the clergy, and in some cases these libraries lost their Jesuit identity through being swamped by large gifts from outside sources. The Holbeck library, on the other hand, was just large enough to be a working tool, and compact enough to have a recognizable identity. Dr Dijkgraaf has supplied a comprehensive account of the library and its context and thanks to his elaborate analysis of the contents, we are able to rationalize and justify the presence of each and every book on the shelves.
2003 / 370 pages / 86698-307-4 / MR264 (LP no. 8) / paper / $30, £24

A Catalogue of the Donations Made to Norwich City Library
Joy Tilley
2000 / 128 pages / 86698-277-9 / MR235 (LP no. 6) / paper / $23, £15

The Library of Lord George Douglas (ca. 1667/8?-1693?):An Early Donation to the Advocates Library
W. A. Kelly

"...not only a building block for the history of the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish history of libraries but also a successful example of library history writing that can grow out of concrete discussion of historical sources." --Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken (IFB)

A joint publication of MRTS and Libri Pertinentes
1997 / 178 pages / paper / 86698-221-3 / MR179 (LP no. 5) / $10, £17

The 'Chymick Bookes' of Sir Owen Wynne of Gwydir:
An Annotated Catalogue
edited by Owen Morris
A joint publication of MRTS and Libri Pertinentes
1997 / 68 pages / paper / 86698-220-5 / MR178 (LP no. 4) / $10, £9

A Wittenberg University Library Catalogue of 1536
edited by Sachiko Kusukawa

"An essential reference point both for further work on the University of Wittenberg and its library, and for the intellectual history of the Reformation." -- Ecclesiastical History

A joint publication of MRTS and Libri Pertinentes
Sale price valid only for North American orders.
1995 / 304 pages / illus. / 86698-182-9 / MR142 (LP no. 3) /$30 $10, £15

Reading in Exile: The Libraries of John Ramridge, Thomas Harding, and Henry Joliffe, Recusants in Louvain
edited by Christian Coppens
1993 / 250 pages / illus. / paper / 9518811-0-6 / MRLP2 / OUT OF PRINT

Late Sixteenth-Century Lists of Law Books at Merton College
edited by Alain Wijffels

"Alain Wijffels . . . has applied to [these] late-sixteenth century lists of law books . . . the careful scrutiny of one of Europe's leading bibliographers." -- Dr. J. R. L. Highfield, former Librarian, Merton College, Oxford

1992 / 150 pages / illus. / paper / 9518811-0-8 / MRLP1 / OUT OF PRINT