Eine Fliege in Bernstein, Hoffnung spiegellos. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Gesellschaft der Antiquitätenhändler
A FLY IN AMBER HOPE MIRRLEES FABER AND FABER 1962 1st edition. 22 x 14 cm. 395 pp + b/w plates. HB/DJ The 'fly in amber' is Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Baronet —a gentleman of ancient family and considerable wealth, a courtier and man about town, sometime court antiquary to James I. Sir Robert was an indefatigable collector of manuscripts, rare books and objects of vertu — articles of beauty and of oddity. At first sight, his life might seem to be of interest only to bibliophiles and to such readers as seek to know about the Origins of our great libraries and museums. But Sir Robert knew everybody who was anybody during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and in Miss Hope Mirrlees he has found the ideal biographer to make him interesting to a wider public.
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