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Pamphlet Books Collection

Reference
PAMPHLET BOOK
Extent
Over 6000 pamphlets bound in around 600 volumes
Date
Around 1750-1900
University Collection
Special Collections

A collection of bound pamphlets, including about 90 volumes apparently from the library of William Wyndham, Baron Grenville. Around half of the collection is searchable via the catalogue.

Subject strengths include all aspects of nineteenth century British politics, such as the Irish question, Catholic emancipation, the Corn Laws and free trade and the Poor Laws, also education, the Church of England, and geology.

More information

Spines of books of WHS press cuttings and an inset of the front cover of Inventory of a Life Mislaid by Marina Warner

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