Cambridge University Library: A History 2 Volume Paperback Set

This two-volume set, originally published in 1986, investigates the history of the University Library at the University of Cambridge.

J. C. T Oates (Author), David McKitterick (Author)

9780521174725, Cambridge University Press

, published 4 November 2010

1354 pages
35.4 x 48.5 x 18.5 cm, 3.32 kg

Of all the departments in the University of Cambridge, the University Library is by far the oldest. The first volume in this set traces its evolution from its hesitant beginnings to its designation as a place of copyright deposit in the legislation of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The second volume takes the history of the Library from the time of the Copyright Act of Queen Anne and the gift by King George I of the celebrated book collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, to the end of the nineteenth century when the Library's place within the University and the scholarly world was well established. The text examines how the Library responded to educational reforms, charts the growth of collections and shows how the needs of undergraduates were answered in an international research library. Both volumes were originally published in 1986.

Volume 1: List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The beginnings
2. From Rotherham to Tunstal
3. The library during the English Reformation
4. The Restoration of the library in 1574
5. Perne's work continued: 1577–98
6. Futilities and frustrations, 1600–28
7. Abraham Whelock
8. Abraham Whelock continued
9. Orientalia
10. The Lambeth Library at Cambridge
11. Some memorials of benefactors, 1653–9
12. The work undone, 1659–64
13. The library of Richard Holdsworth
14. Henry Lucas and Tobias Rustat
15. Peachey succeeds Dobson: Hacket's request
16. Miscellaneous accessions, 1664–84
17. From Robert Peachey to John Laughton
18. Into the eighteenth century
Appendix
Index of manuscripts
General index. Volume 2: List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: national expectations
2. The Copyright Act of 1710
3. John Moore and his circle
4. The making of the Royal Library
5. The challenge of the Royal Library
6. Benefactors, curiosities and strangers
7. New buildings and old problems
8. Richard Farmer
9. Thomas Kerrich
10. The national stage: the Copyright Act of 1814
11. The end of the old regime
12. 'Doctrinae et scientiae incrementa'
13. Joseph Power and the distribution of responsibility
14. The copyright agency
15. New directions
16. Turbulent years: J. E. B. Mayor
17. Bradshaw in command
18. Other men's flowers
19. Bradshaw at bay
Appendix: list of librarians, 1686–1886
Index of manuscripts
General index.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP]