Author: HOLKHAM LIBRARY. DOREZ (Léon)
Title: Les Manuscrits a Peintures de la Bibliothèque de Lord Leicester a Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Choix de Miniatures et de Reliures publié sous les auspices de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de la Société des Bibliophiles François par Léon Dorez.
Description: Ernest Leroux, Paris. 1908. Folio, [vi],108pp., 60 fine full-page collotype plates, some intermittent foxing as is usual with this book, this copy printed for presentation to the Baron de Barante and so designated, cont. quarter blue morocco, marbled paper boards, uncut, a nice copy. A very scarce work dealing with twenty-one of the illuminated manuscripts from the magnificent Holkham collection. "One of the most important private collections of books and manuscripts in the United Kingdom... There is no printed catalogue of the Holkham manuscripts, although one has one has been compiled by Roscoe and one by Dorez."—De Ricci. Sir Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, travelled extensively on the Continent from 1712 to 1718 and purchased over 600 manuscripts; these came largely from the collection of Giuseppe Valletta at Naples and from the library of San Giovanni in Verdara at Padua. The Greek manuscripts of the Giustiniani library at Venice were obtained en bloc in 1721. The library still remains at Holkham and was largely added to by Thomas William Coke, his grand nephew. De Ricci, pp. 42-43.

Keywords: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS BOOKBINDING HOLKHAM HALL COKE FAMILY NORFOLK