Much of the Godmersham Park Library collection was dispersed in the 20th century. In the last 5 years, @LostSheepGPL have discovered and returned 13 books from the Godmersham Library to Chawton. This bee-keeping manual is their latest donation, now on display in the Library.
The Godmersham Park Library had a copy of this book by William Wake, now a Lost Sheep - but here is a copy noted on #HerBook with an interesting provenance [ignore name error in post title]:
https://t.co/r4NqdEwbE5
@north_chawton The Wollstonecraft 'Posthumous Works' Campaign has just gone live on the NAFCH website. Please help if you can - and with hearty thanks to those who have already donated!
https://t.co/6yZWhaSr11
Help Chawton House bring back Mary Wollstonecraft to the Library! they have just announced their new fundraising campaign to purchase MW's Posthumous Works, a first edition (1798): https://t.co/saUu0qIgU5
An extremely interesting (and new to me) manuscript catalog of the personal library of Anne Thistlethwayte, ca. 1690, containing a list of a 138 books, separated by format. BPL MS q Eng.551. #herbook