Studies in English Printing and Libraries

by John Claud T. Oates

Book cover: Studies in English Printing and Libraries

Extent: 412 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Studies in the History of Printing

Series volume number: 6

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1991)

ISBN: 9780907132578

Price: $63.00

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This volume compiles John Oates’ research on English printing and Cambridge University Library’s collection. It includes 15 studies on English printing (15th-18th centuries), 11 on the library’s collection, and 3 on his interest in Sterne.


This volume brings together John Oates’ studies on English printing, and the collection at Cambridge University Library, to which he devoted his career. It contains fifteen studies on English printing between the filteenth and the eighteenth centuries, and eleven studies on the collection of Cambridge University Library. Three further studies reflect his interest in Sterne, which began as a hobby, and on whom he formed a collection of international repute. The publication of these papers in collected form provides a fitting memorial to a lifetime’s work on English printing, and a career as one of the great scholar-librarians of modem times in England. There is a preface by Dennis Rhodes, who has also contributed a bibliography of John Oates’ publications.

Preface The Trewe Encountre: A Pamphlet on Flodden Field Booksellers' Guarantees Seventeenth-century Briefs at Cambridge Thomas Gabitus An Early Ownership Rhyme A Bookseller's Stamp Richard Pynson and the Holy Blood of Hayles English Bokes concernyng to James Morice A Bookseller's Donation-label Fore-edge Titles in Cambridge University Library Non Est Mortale Quod Opto The Little Gest of Robin Hood The Manuscripts of Thomas Erpenius, John Fletcher, Pieter Nuyts and his 'Album amicorum' Cancel Slips A Cambridge Iuvencus Books at Cambridge before the Seventeenth Century Three Sixteenth-Century Catalogues of the University Library: Cambridge Books of Congratulatory Verses, 1603-1640, and their Binders The Deposit of Books at Cambridge under the Licensing Acts 1662-79, 1685-1695 The Cambridge University Library, 1400-1600
Libraries of Cambridge, 1570-1700 The University Library Catalogue of 1556: an Addendum Cambridge University and the Reform of the Copyright Act, 1805-1813 Cambridge and the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (1710-1814) Cambridge University Library. A Historical Sketch A History of the Collection of Incunabula in Cambridge University Library On Collecting Sterne Notes on the Bibliography of Sterne Shandyism and Sentiment, 1760-1800 An Old Boot from Cambridge Hot Air from Cambridge Young Mr. Bradshaw A Bibliography of the Publications of J. C. T. Oates by Dennis E. Rhodes.

  • By (author) John Claud T Oates