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Edward Gibbon’s library: a new acquisition

Posted on 13 September 2017 by Liam Sims

Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]

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

New acquisitions from Edward Gibbon’s library

Posted on 8 May 2015 by Liam Sims

On this day in 1737 was born Edward Gibbon: historian, Member of Parliament and author of The history of the decline & fall of the […]

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

Rupert Brooke: 100 years on

Posted on 23 April 2015 by Liam Sims

A century ago today – on 23rd April 1915 – died Rupert Brooke, lauded in his lifetime as one of the country’s finest poets. This […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

A presentation copy from Oscar Wilde

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Liam Sims

Having been reminded by the BBC and British Library this morning that today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

The original Miss Austen: celebrating the bicentenary of ‘Sense and sensibility’

Posted on 30 October 2011 by Jill Whitelock

This month marks the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and sensibility, which was published in October 1811 as an anonymous work, ‘by […]

In the spotlight, Rare Books