Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - Britain

Lot Comprises:

Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol. 1 to 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham‐Green and Teresa Webber, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, publisher's cloth, dust jacket

Nicolas Barker, Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses, New York, 1999, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Raymond Irwin, The Libraries of London (Seventeen Lectures delivered at the University of London School of Librarianship in April, 1948), London, 1949, 8vo., publisher's simulated brown cloth

Raymond Irwin, The Origins of the English Library, (London, 1958), reprint Westport, 1981, 8vo., publisher's black cloth

Eton, College library

Robert Birley, The History of College Library (The Eton College Collections), Eton, 1970, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

Eton, College library

Paul Quarrie, Treasures of Eton College Library, 550 Years of Collecting, New York & Eton, Pierpont Morgan Library / Provost and Fellows of Eton College, 1990, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Grantham, St. Wulfram's Church

John Glenn & David Walsh, Catalogue of the Francis Trigge Chained Library, St. Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1988, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Helmut Gneuss, Books and Libraries in Early England, Aldershot, Variorum reprints, 1996, small 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt

Thomas Kelly, Early Public Libraries: A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain before 1830, London, 1969, 4to., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket, embossed initials on endleaf F.T.B.

Michael Roger Perkin, A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales, revised edition, London, Bibliographical Society, 2004, 4to., publisher's blue cloth

Ernest A. Savage, Old English libraries : the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages, London, Methuen, 1911, 4to., publisher's red cloth, naugahide dust jacket

Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Chained Library: A Survey of Four Centuries in the Evolution of the English Library, London, 1931, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

Francis Wormald and C.E. Wright, ed., The English library before 1700 : studies in its history, London, University of London, Athlone Press, 1958, 8vo., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Sears Jayne, Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance, Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1956, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Sears Jayne, Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance (Reissue with New Preface and Notes), Bury St. Edmunds, 1983, 8vo., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

London, Westminster Abbey

Christopher D. Cook, Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries (Bookbinding Descriptions by Mirjam M. Foot), London, Bibliographical Society, 2013, publisher's blue cloth

Aberdeen, University

William P.D. Wightman, Science and the Renaissance, Volume I, An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century; Volume II, An Annotated Bibliography of the Sixteenth‐Century Books Relating to the Sciences in the Library of the University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London, Olivers and Boyd; New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1962, 2 vols., publisher's red cloth gilt, dust jacket

Denis F. Keeling, ed., British Library History: Bibliography, 1985‐1988, Winchester, 1991, 8vo., publisher's blue boards

London, Wellcome Collection

F.N.L. Poynter, ed., A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, I. Books Printed before 1641, II. Books Printed from 1641 to 1850, (London, 1966), reprint Staten Island, 1966, 2 vols., fol., publisher's blue cloth, edition of 500 copies

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