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| 2023-05-11 i463 Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III (oil,1903), Howard Pyle; Delaware Museum of Art |
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The Bibliomania or Book-Madness. History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease, by Thomas Frognall Dibidin. . In 1903, the Bibliophile Society of Boston commissioned Howard Pyle to illustrate Dibdin's volume about the obsessive collecting of rare books. . Here, the Benedictine monk tutors the young Edward III, who will soon become king and a book collector. |