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Catalogue of the First Portion of the Famous Library of the Late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart; F. R. S. &C., Of Middle-Hill, Worcestershire, and Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham
Excerpt from Catalogue of the First Portion of the Famous Library of the Late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart; F. R. S. &C., Of Middle-Hill, Worcestershire, and Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham: Including a Complete Set of the Publications Privately Printed by Him at Middle-Hill This noted work contains valuable information on the com merce and richness of the Provinces of Zoques and Gua temala. The author appears to have been a believer in witchcraft and sorcery, and admits into his work many curious relations on those subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Departing Soul's Address to the Body
Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century. Phillipps began his collecting while still at Rugby School and continued at Oxford. Such was his devotion that he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts and coined the term avello-maniaca to describe his obsession. His success as a collector owed something to the dispersal of the monastic libraries following the French Revolution and the relative cheapness of a large amount of vellum material, in particular English legal documents, many of which owe their survival to Phillipps. He was an assiduous cataloguer who established the Middle Hill Press in 1822 not only to record his book holdings but also to publish his findings in English topography and genealogy. During his lifetime Phillipps attempted to turn over his collection to the British nation and corresponded with the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Disraeli in order that it should be acquired for the British Library. Negotiations proved unsuccessful and ultimately the dispersal of his collection took over 100 years.
