Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
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'
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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.
