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THOMPSON, Henry Yates -- JAMES, Montague Rhodes. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson . Cambridge, 1898. 8 o. Original dark blue buckram. THOMPSON'S OWN COPY, WITH HIS NOTES on the endpages detailing who received copies of this volume. -- A Descriptive Catalogue of the second series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100)... Cambridge, 1902. 8 o. Original dark blue buckram. THOMPSON'S OWN ANNOTATED INTERLEAVED COPY, WITH HIS NOTES ON MANY PRELIMINARIES, including a detailed listing of the manuscript "outcasts" and "incomers" of this collection which includes his cost, date of purchase and fate of the manuscripts. -- A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts nos. LXXV to XCIV. (Replacing twenty discarded from the original hundred:)... Cambridge, 1907. 8 o. Original buckram -- A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts Nos. XCV to CVII and 79A completing the hundred in the Library of ... Cambridge, 1912. 8 o. Original buckram. [ With :] THOMPSON, Henry Yates. Illustrations of One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson . London: Chiswick Press, 1907-1918. 7 volumes, 2 o. Original blue buckram, spines gilt-lettered, t.e.g. (some fading). A mixed set, but with important provenance: vols. 1 and 3 are each inscribed by Thompson to "His Ex c y: Major Chancellor" on the title-page; vol. 5 is inscribed by Thomspson: "No. 2 to my dear wife from HYT Xmas 1916"; and vols 4 and 7 are THOMPSON'S OWN COPIES, each designated number "1" on the title and WITH HIS NOTES on endleaves and laid in, detailing who received copies of his catalogue, list of plate counts, some correspondence and photographs of manuscripts, etc. On the front pastedown of vol. 7 he notes the cost of printing and binding at the Chiswick press and Emery Walker's fee for illustrations. In addition, the volume numbers are indicated on the lower edges of Walker's copies. (7)