In 1746 Johnson entered into an agreement with a group of London booksellers to write an English dictionary, and began work the same year with only six assistants to aid him. A year later he published ...
On Tuesday 10 December, Level 10 will be closed until 10am to allow for preparations for the Library Annexe Upgrade Project. On Tuesday 10 December, Level 10 will be closed until 10am to allow for ...
This acorn panel may have been originally Netherlandish in design but it certainly came later to England. It is one of eleven such panels used by English binders in the early sixteenth century. The ...
The February 'book of the month' is a copy of the 1608 edition of Otto Van Veen's Amorum Emblemata, bought by the library in 1997 with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions, administered by ...