Advent 2023: 7 December

Todays image is of a number of pressed and dried leaves, found preserved in the Bolton Library

Advent 2023: 5 December

Today’s post on recycling in the Bolton Library with images of bookbinder’s waste

Advent 2023: 4 December

Today’s images are of material preserved under strict storage conditions in our strongrooms

Advent 2023: 3 December

Today’s image if of one of our oldest manuscripts from the Bolton Library, an ‘Encyclopedia of medieval knowledge relating to the quadrivium’, dating from 1168.

Advent 2023: 1 December

Today’s images feature an account book from Plassey House recording the sale of tomatoes, the UL rooftop garden and a surprise from the Bolton

‘I found this valuable book fast falling in pieces…’

Irish language annotations appear on an item produced in exile

Histories, bindings, knocks and markings

How can we use the term ‘unique’ when several copies exist?

The breeches Bible

Binding, Bucknalls and breeches

Unique items in the Bolton Library #2

Iconography and music in European works from the Bolton Library

Jean Miller’s green catalogue (1973)

2023: a year of anniversaries in the Bolton Library

Bolton Library: Bolted On #3

Are these three unique broadsides?

‘… through these words comes opinions into the world’

The Index librorum prohibitorum and the banning of books