Catalogue of Books from Thorp Park and Brampton Hall

Item date: 1789
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 720
Item date acquired: 1987
Item institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Catalogue made by the executors of Sir Robert Bernard of the books left on his death in 1789. The Thorp Park library consists mainly of 17th century Law books, those at Brampton Hall more modern with a first edition of Smiths The Wealth of Nations, 1796 amongst them

Item Provenance
The Thorp Park library was formed by the 17th century lawyer Oliver St John, that at Brampton Hall by the Bernards of Brampton from 17th century
Catalogue of Books from Thorp Park and Brampton Hall. FNL grant 1987. Image courtesy of Cambridgeshire Archives.
Catalogue of Books from Thorp Park and Brampton Hall. FNL grant 1987. Image courtesy of Cambridgeshire Archives.