HOBSON (Anthony). Apollo and Pegasus. An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library.1975

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. Van Heusden, First Edition, 4to, xviii, 250pp., coloured frontis., 33 plates ( 1 in colour), numerous illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. A fascinating study, tracing the long sought-after ownership of a 16th century collection of books - now dispersed all over the world - famous for their cryptic device of Apollo and Pegasus. Provenance: Tipped-in to front paste-down is a presentation inscribed note from the author to Richard William Hunt (1908-1979) scholar, grammarian, palaeographer, editor, and author of a number of books about medieval history.