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You might have noticed our new special collections display case at the top of the stairs.
We’ve started with King Henry VIII’s Great Bible of 1539.
Click here to find out more: https://t.co/OUhuQ3QfsG
#LibraryTreasures #ExploreYourArchives #RareBooks #Exhibition #Library
We have some beautiful examples of binding in our library collections! This is a first edition of 'The Holy Grail & Other Poems' by Tennyson (1870), bound by De Sauty in brown levant morocco with floral roundel and gilt edges.
Westminster Library LG PR5559 .H6C6 #LibraryTreasures
#LibraryTreasures: Forma Ac Ratio Tota, by Jan Łaski (1499-1560), a Polish reformer who lived in London. The owner of this 1555 copy noted Łaski's belief in “sitting at ye receiving ye Eucharist" caused "a great wrangle & confusion in ye 5th year of Edw: 6”!
HU BX2595 .A8 .L3
Here's an extra festive example of #LibraryTreasures for December: Christmas Poems by TH Darlow, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1895. From the Elias Library of Hymnology WM EL 512 DAR
With #LibraryTreasures in October, we’re celebrating Black History Month #BHM. This is our copy of the 1773 edition of Poems by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), Black author and earliest African-American woman poet to have her poems published.
Good news! I've been invited back to Cambridge Central Library for another Meet Your Local Authors Event in November. Here I am in 2023!
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On this day in history, we celebrate the birth of Daniel O'Connell — 'The Liberator.' 📚✍️
Dive into his legacy with this rare correspondence from our collection.
#DanielOConnell #LibraryTreasures
For July’s #LibraryTreasures we’ve got a holiday theme, with THE 1700s travel guide to Italy: Voyage d’Italie par Maximilien Misson, in 4 volumes. Our edition was printed in Amsterdam for sale in Paris, 1743 – beautiful tooled and gilt binding!
Huguenot Collection HU DG424 .M67
#LibraryTreasures We recently stumbled upon an album by Kusakabe Kimbei who trained as a photo-colourist and founded a studio in Yokohama in 1881. Ref - MS 4460 2013/028, AF 952.03 @LibraryofBham
Our rare books collections contain some extraordinary titles, from #Borlase to #Suetonius, and this remarkable art book entitled #Dartmoor Tin. Get in touch to discover our collection and make an appointment to view them. #RareBooks #LibraryTreasures #ExploreYourLibrary
One book, TWO examples of Early Modern women’s book ownership! Elizabeth Glegg her Booke 1703; Eliz: Lee her Book 1798 Annoq: Dom: Christi: …on Tate’s Miscellanea Sacra or Poems on Divine & Moral Subjects, 1698. EL TAT 540
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#LibraryTreasures for May
Wheat and grapes depict bread and wine, in this detail of ‘the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper’, from the Order of Public Worship for St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Redhill & Reigate, 1909. By Therese Elaine Lessore (1884-1945) & Bernard Adeney (1878-1966). #LibraryTreasures
#Epiphany commemorates the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus. Pieter #Bruegel the Elder’s ‘Adoration of the Kings’ (1564) is just one image in this beautiful Taschen edition of his works in our #Art Room, which is full of a great variety of artists' books. #LibraryTreasures
The final treasure in our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. #Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ is set on the eve of #Epiphany. Our library holds many versions of this play,but few as beautiful as this edition illustrated by English cartoonist W. Heath Robinson. #LibraryTreasures
Day 11 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections.Our historic Cornish #newspapers provide great insight into the history of Penwith.The #Cornishman #OTD in 1968
featured news on our friends at the public Penzance Library! #LibraryTreasures #ExploreYourArchive #PenzanceLibrary
Day 10 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. Dr. John Hill’s 1756 ‘British Herbal’ was an authoritative work describing plants for both ornamental and medicinal purposes. These depictions of #Holly and #Ivy are hand-painted. #LibraryTreasures #Herbal #MedicinalPlants
Day 9 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. Time to take the #ChristmasCards down? It would have been hard to put away these beautiful cards from renowned wood-engraver and artist Hilda Quick.Her collections are in our Archives.#LibraryTreasures #HildaQuick #WoodEngraving
Day 8 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. Happy New Year to all! We hope in 2025 to bring as much fun and enjoyment to you as these children are obviously having outside the library at the #MorrabGardens fountain, on a snowy day in 1937. #LibraryTreasures #NewYear #2025
Day 6 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. Our Archives hold recipe books from the 17th-18th C. As well as festive treats like Plum Cake, there's also a recipe for curing madness–which might be just what you need if you’ve had a chaotic Christmas week! #LibraryTreasures
Day 5 of our 12 days of Morrab Library collections. Christmas would not be complete without Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, #AChristmasCarol, partly inspired after #Dickens visited #Botallack Mine and was shocked by the appalling conditions for the workers.
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