highlights

The oldest printed books in the Library are incunabula from the second half of the 15th Century. Incunabula are books printed before 1501, with a system that used individual letters and words to make up […]

‘Gulliver’s Travels’ was written by Dean Jonathan Swift and has become a classic in English and world literature. When its publication was announced in 1726, the Evening Post heralded it an ‘immediate best-seller’. The publisher, […]

Like many 19th century gentlemen of wealth and status, Archbishop Marcus Gervais Beresford (1862-1885) collected prehistoric and historic artefacts and created a ‘cabinet of curios’. Collections were often supplemented by mementoes of the gentlemen’s travels, […]

The Library holds an impressive collection of over 3000 prints, both bound in volumes and individual prints. The collection comprises fifteenth- to nineteenth century prints, including those by Vouet, Mellan, Goltzius, Hogarth, Piranesi, and the […]