ANTHONY HOBSON (1921–2014) was a former Director of Sotheby’s and President of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie. His books include Apollo and Pegasus (1975), Humanists and Bookbinders (1989) and Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings (1999).EDWARD POTTEN was formerly an Associate Director and Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library and is a freelance consultant.MIRJAM FOOT is a scholar working in the field of book history; she was formerly a Director of the British Library and is Emeritus Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College, London.

There are so many to whom we would wish to express our gratitude for what we have been given... It is a magisterial achievement.

ANTHONY HOBSON (1921–2014) was a former Director of Sotheby’s and President of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie. His books include Apollo and Pegasus (1975), Humanists and Bookbinders (1989) and Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings (1999).EDWARD POTTEN was formerly an Associate Director and Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library and is a freelance consultant.MIRJAM FOOT is a scholar working in the field of book history; she was formerly a Director of the British Library and is Emeritus Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College, London.

There are so many to whom we would wish to express our gratitude for what we have been given... It is a magisterial achievement.

ANTHONY HOBSON (1921–2014) was a former Director of Sotheby’s and President of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie. His books include Apollo and Pegasus (1975), Humanists and Bookbinders (1989) and Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings (1999).EDWARD POTTEN was formerly an Associate Director and Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library and is a freelance consultant.MIRJAM FOOT is a scholar working in the field of book history; she was formerly a Director of the British Library and is Emeritus Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College, London.

There are so many to whom we would wish to express our gratitude for what we have been given... It is a magisterial achievement.