Jean Miller’s green catalogue (1973)
2023: a year of anniversaries in the Bolton Library
Category: Bolton
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
Dyeing with yasha, a traditional & natural Japanese dye
Yasha is a natural yellow-brown dye extracted from cones of the Japanese alder tree and used to dye fabric and paper.
National Heritage Week 2022: The Bolton Library A to Z
Showcasing the best of the Bolton Library for National Heritage Week 2022
Further Reading and Resources
Bolton Blog Posts A Good Eye: Future Archbishop William King (1650–1729) in the west […]
Z is for…
Zodiac Planet Man A volume for the spiritual begins with the corporeal, the temporal, […]
Y is for…
Yellow Textblock edges stained a solid block of colour can be a useful indicator […]
X is for…
X Pattern So few bindings survive from the turn of the 13th century that […]
W is for…
Waste Some of the material in the Bolton Library has taken a rather more […]
V is for…
Valuable ‘NB. I found this valuable book fast falling in pieces and almost destroyed […]
U is for…
Unique Cataloguing in the 21st century, with access to digital catalogues and images worldwide, […]
