Digitized Book: The Great Book-Collectors (Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton, 1893)

The Great Book-Collectors deals with bibliophilia and bibliomania. It describes the circumstances behind the creation of the British Library, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum. The authors were prominent book collectors as well.

Hardcover, 1893. First Edition. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 228; frontispiece portrait, 9 plates.

Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London (1893).

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