Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bernard Quaritch's Catalogue: Examples of the Art of Book-Binding and Volumes Bearing Marks of Distinguished Ownership Offered at the Net Prices Affixed
The provenance of this volume is easily ascertained. It is one of a number of books which in 1745 belonged to James Bowen (and upon all of which he wrote his name). They were all of the same age and style (both as to calligraphy and binding), and some of them bore the original letterings and records of ownership, -all having been written in Reading Abbey between 1140 and 1170.
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