Excerpt from Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T. Gilbert, LL. D., F. S. A., M. R.

I. A IT is not very easy to exaggerate the value and importance of the library formed by the late Sir John Gilbert. Few Irish libraries, if any, so compact and of such interest and extent have ever been brought together by a private collector. For at least forty years Gilbert seems to have carefully watched every notable auction of books, to have examined 'every important bookseller's catalogue, and to have lost no opportunity of completing his historical collections. The library, therefore, whose principal features we shall endeavour to summarize here, is one of the most perfect of its kind known to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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