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Coming up at Sotheby's London next week is a volume many book collectors covet:
Richard de Bury's Philobiblon (1599), an early treatise on bibliophily, i.e. book love. De Bury (1287-1345) was an English bishop and a book collector who chronicled the acquisition, preservation, organization, and lending practices of a library in twenty handy chapters. He intended to found a college at Oxford with his books, but he died too poor to succeed in that endeavor.
This first English edition is bound in contemporary vellum gilt, with a gilt centerpiece decoration of a Tudor Rose and the remnants of blue silk ties extant. The estimate is £5,000-7,000 ($7,710-10,794).
Image: Via Sotheby's.