JAMES, M.R. [Montague Rhodes], The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, and The Macmillan Company, New York), 1919

8vo; pp. 96.

Published as part of the series ‘Helps for Students of History’, this is a lively and extremely informative guide to the various ways in which ancient manuscripts have come down to us, from the pen of one of the greatest of all manuscript cataloguers.

With the neat ownership inscription of Cecil Hurry, dated March 1920. Hurry was undoubtedly well known to James: amongst other roles he was librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, a repository cited in this text and of course extensively visited by James in the preparation of his monumental Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College (1900–1904).

A very good copy in original decorative cloth-covered boards; excellent internally, save only some inevitable offsetting to the endpapers, and some further offsetting to the last leaf from a newspaper clipping affixed to the inside of the rear cover (presumably by Hurry, and concerning the 1927 discovery of an important monastic volume).