Catalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral Books Printed Before 1801

Name: Catalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral Books Printed Before 1801
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ISBN: 9780521234801

ISBN-10: 0521234808

ISBN-13: 9780521234801

Edition: 1982

Authors: Clive Hurst

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There was certainly a collection of books at Lincoln Cathedral in the twelfth century, and its origins were perhaps earlier still; but little interest seems to have been taken in building up the library until the second half of the seventeenth century, with the appointment in 1660 of the bibliophile Michael Honywood, a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, as Dean. The present Wren Library's collection of some 8,000 printed books is based largely on his private library, bequeathed to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln on his death in 1681. Much of Honywood's library was put together during seventeen years of voluntary exile in the Low Countries from 1643. It is consequently rich in sixteenth-…

Book details

List price: $167.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/2/1982
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 616
Size: 8.90" wide x 11.89" long x 1.85" tall
Weight: 5.522
Language: English

Clive Hurst is Head of Rare Books at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.



The Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral, 1981


Foreword


Introduction


List of abbreviations


The catalogue


Concordances