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A study of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) for over sixty years a major figure in the world of fine printing and early manuscript.
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The 2000 Robert L. Nikirk Lecture. The first in a new series of Grolier Club publications documenting the annual Robert L. Nikirk Lectures in Bibliography. In this lecture, Christopher de Hamel (Donnelley Fellow Librarian at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), himself a leading authority on medieval and illuminated manuscripts, traces Cockerell's influence on several generations of collectors, librarians and scholars. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed in an edition of 1000 copies.
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