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Author: Ed

Sandars Lectures 2011-2012

Posted on 20 February 2012 by Ed

The Sandars Readership in Bibliography was instituted in 1895 with a bequest of £2000 left to the University by Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College […]

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Events, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Eighteenth-century English erotica for a discerning German wartime audience

Posted on 28 June 2011 by Ed

The Rare Books Department has just purchased a rather unusual piece of First-World-War printing. John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill […]

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German, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Incunabula lecture

Posted on 10 May 2011 by Ed

On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]

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Events, Incunabula, Rare Books

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Posted on 19 April 2011 by Ed

The Rare Books Department has recently added two significant early sixteenth-century books to the University’s collections, both rare collected writings of the Cistercian Bernard of […]

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Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

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