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2lilithcat
Books from QE1’s personal library are exceedingly scarce, and this one contains some early marginalia too. The estimate is $8,000-12,000.
That's all? I could f'ing afford that. Well, okay, I'd have to stretch, and it might mean no travel abroad for a couple of years, but I could do it in a pinch.
That's all? I could f'ing afford that. Well, okay, I'd have to stretch, and it might mean no travel abroad for a couple of years, but I could do it in a pinch.
4amandafrench
What I want is a book from the private library of Richard III! Maybe he owned a copy of Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, the first (dated) book printed in England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictes_and_Sayings_of_the_Philosophers
5amandafrench
I bet this Book of Hours belonging to King Richard would cost more than $12k if sold: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Prayer-book-owned-Richard-III-display-Leiceste...
6lilithcat
>4 amandafrench:
According to Richard III's Books: Ideal and Reality in the Life of a Medieval Prince, by Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser Fuchs, he did not. It is listed there as a book "wrongly attributed to Richard III's ownership". They say: Richard's ownership of the ms. was a hypothesis of M. R. James based on the illegible signature on the last flyleaf. Examination of the signature under ultra-violet light has not confirmed this hypothesis.
You might also be interested in Sutton and Fuchs' The Hours of Richard III.
According to Richard III's Books: Ideal and Reality in the Life of a Medieval Prince, by Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser Fuchs, he did not. It is listed there as a book "wrongly attributed to Richard III's ownership". They say: Richard's ownership of the ms. was a hypothesis of M. R. James based on the illegible signature on the last flyleaf. Examination of the signature under ultra-violet light has not confirmed this hypothesis.
You might also be interested in Sutton and Fuchs' The Hours of Richard III.
