Rare Books – Page 5 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

‘Truth-Untruth’: Brexit through letterpress

Posted on 29 November 2018 by Special Collections

This post is by Alan Qualtrough, a letterpress artist, graphic designer and typographer based in Plymouth who met two of the Library’s staff at a […]

Acquisitions, Historical Printing, Rare Books, Special Collections

A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!

Posted on 20 November 2018 by Sian Collins

“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]

Archives, Events, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019

Posted on 16 November 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: a conference reflection

Posted on 8 November 2018 by Emily Dourish

Venice showed itself at its most beautiful in late September when hosting a gathering of over 100 academics, librarians, members of the book trade and […]

Digital Resources, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books

Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings Project

Posted on 29 October 2018 by Special Collections

This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

Material Evidence in Incunabula – guest post

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Special Collections

The following post has been written by Ester Peric, an intern in the Rare Books Department for the month of August updating MEI records (material […]

Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

A miscellany of new acquisitions

Posted on 5 September 2018 by Liam Sims

Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Navigating to Boston

Posted on 11 July 2018 by William Hale

The Library’s exhibition “Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower” highlights some of the books in our holdings that you might not necessarily expect to find […]

Astronomy, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions