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Description: | This is the private collection of the Isham family, totalling c.3000 vols., including 2 incunabula, c.150 STC and c.750 Wing items. Many of the French and Italian books were purchased on the Grand Tour, 1680. It is a fine specimen of a 17th and 18th c. Tory squire's library to which little has been added since 1737.
regional significance | Subjects: | Theology Classical studies Travel abroad Topography | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Telephone: | 01604 686272 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6974 | Go to resource |
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