STOURBRIDGE FAIR -- MILLINGTON, Edward, bookseller. Bibliotheca Sturbrigensis, sive, Catalogus variorum librorum antiquorum, & recentiorum plurimis facultatibus insignium: per auctionem vendendorum (in gratiam celeberrimae Cantabrigiensis academiae) in Nundino Sturbrigiano ... octavo die Septembris, 1685. [Cambridge]: given to all gentleman-scholars, &c. at the several coffeehouses in Cambridg, [1685].
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STOURBRIDGE FAIR -- MILLINGTON, Edward, bookseller. Bibliotheca Sturbrigensis, sive, Catalogus variorum librorum antiquorum, & recentiorum plurimis facultatibus insignium: per auctionem vendendorum (in gratiam celeberrimae Cantabrigiensis academiae) in Nundino Sturbrigiano ... octavo die Septembris, 1685. [Cambridge]: given to all gentleman-scholars, &c. at the several coffeehouses in Cambridg, [1685].

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STOURBRIDGE FAIR -- MILLINGTON, Edward, bookseller. Bibliotheca Sturbrigensis, sive, Catalogus variorum librorum antiquorum, & recentiorum plurimis facultatibus insignium: per auctionem vendendorum (in gratiam celeberrimae Cantabrigiensis academiae) in Nundino Sturbrigiano ... octavo die Septembris, 1685. [Cambridge]: given to all gentleman-scholars, &c. at the several coffeehouses in Cambridg, [1685].

4° (234 x 177mm). (Browned, one headline shaved.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan, spine lettered in gilt (slightly worn at extremities). Provenance: a few early annotations -- Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp).

The auction of books 'so desirable ... that it needs not the patronage or name of some learned person's library to recommend it' took place at Stourbridge Fair. Munby & Coral, p. 5; Wing (2nd ed.) B-2858.
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