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Undated edition not previously in BL collection. Purchased with 20 donated by A Gimson

First edition, very scarce with imprint of Vincent Sartenas

Gives proof that the Newspaper tax of 1712 was being evaded through a loophole in the law governing the quantity of paper used

One of three known copies. Part of a collection of 130 books including 60 incunables, 14 books printed by Wynkyn de Worde, a large number of 16th and 17th century books of which no other copy is recorded and 8 bindings of exceptional quality.

Most of the letters contain exhortations and advice as to the boy's studies. Presented by John Ehrman

900 documents mostly 17th and 18th centuries; valuable for the study of economic and agricultural history

The Jacobean ceiling of the library at Blickling Hall has panels taken from this emblem book

Written on vellum, the greater part of Europe is shown, including the British Isles and North Africa; fully illuminated and decorated with flags, coats of arms, pictures of towns and cities and the King of Spain on his throne. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Heckles work was not previously represented in the Library

First German adaptation of the Collationes patrum, the first book printed by Bmler. Presented by CA Webb together with Spiegel des Snders, 1480. A confessional manual printed at Augsburg