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Catalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral - Books Printed before 1801 (Paperback, Revised)
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Catalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral - Books Printed before 1801 (Paperback, Revised)
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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- and seventeenth-century
continental literature, including rare Italian plays, European
pamphlets and broadsides interpreting the English political
situation, a collection of Dutch ballads, and many religious books
and tracts. The splendid English collection includes 1600 STC
items, and 2,650 printed between 1641 and 1700, over 100 of which
are not recorded in Wing. In addition there are some 100
incunables. This complete catalogue of books printed before 1801 is
the first since 1859, and offers the detail and precision required
by modern scholars, bibliographers and libraries. Titles are given
at some length to indicate subject coverage, and format,
pagination, and details of illustrations are recorded. The
catalogue notes which books belonged to Honywood, whose importance
as a collector is thus established. A set of concordances keyed to
the main entries covers STC, Wing, Adams, and Goff.
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