Tag: rare books
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Rare books at Campion Hall – fourth report
Read more: Rare books at Campion Hall – fourth reportThis is the fourth post in a series for our blog. It shares the reports written by Alison Felstead, Rare Books Cataloguer at Campion Hall, who has since April 2024 done sterling work on creating detailed records for those Heythrop Library rare books which are stored at Campion Hall. Below is the report received from Alison for the Heythrop…
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Cataloguing update : botanical discoveries
Read more: Cataloguing update : botanical discoveriesMy latest cataloguing discovery is that two books about flowers can tell us a lot about the expanse of Heythrop’s heritage collections. I catalogued these books about botanicals in the past couple of months and realised they each showcase different strengths in the collection.
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Treasures at Campion Hall – report June 2025
Read more: Treasures at Campion Hall – report June 2025On 2 June 2025, our rare book cataloguer, Alison Felstead, gave a superb introduction to the history and contents of the Heythrop Library’s rare book collection, as well as providing some tantalising insights into the work of antiquarian cataloguing. Alison first traced the origins of the Heythrop collection, from the 1614 establishment of a training…