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Help Restore the Pages of History

Help us raise £8,000 to finish funding conservation of twenty 16th, 17th and 18th-century books that form an important part of our collection as well as run a series of book-based engagement events. Once treated, they will be returned to display for the enjoyment of future visitors, available to scholars for research, and preserved for the benefit of the public. The books you'll be helping to save:

 

Books by or owned by Elizabeth Carter

  • Carter, Epictetus, 1st edition (1758) £800

  • Mason, Poems (1764) £300-£350

  • Xenophon, Works (in Greek), Oxford, (1679) £300 - £350

  • Aeschylus (1557), Sophocles (1568), Greek Anthology (1566) £360

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Books owned or by Samuel Johnson

  • Cowley, Works, 1678, £450

  • Hawkesworth and Johnson, The Adventurer, 2 vols, 1753-4. £600

  • Johnson, Life of Savage, 1st edition. 1744 £250

  • Johnson, Lives of the English Poets. 3 volumes, Dublin, 1779-81  £700

  • Johnson, Prince of Absinnia, Dublin, 1759 £350

  • Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language. 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1755 £500

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Books owned or by James Boswell

  • Lucretius, De rerum natura – given to James Bowell by Pascal Paoli. £250

  • Boswell, Account of Corsica, 1768. £300 - £350 

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Other

  • Piozzi, British Symphony, 2 volumes, 1794 £600 - £800

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