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Elixirated spirit of scurvy-grass Medical advertising at its most persuasive can be seen in […]
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Death Death walks in the only known copy of this missal (Lyon, 1550) and […]
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Calendars Bolton Library Ms 1, believed to be an encyclopaedia or relating to the […]
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Banned Books The rise of printing correlated with the appearance of the Index Librorum […]
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Alum Tawed Skin Alum tawed skin is prepared in a solution of aluminium and […]
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Collection Information
Accumulated by two bishops – Archbishop William King (1650-1729) and Bishop Theophilus Bolton (1678-1744) […]
Advent 2021: 17 December
Frontis Map of the Caribbean found in the Bolton Library (1729)
Advent 2021: 10 December
Engraved title page showing a compilation of transport types from our Bolton Library. (1671)
Advent 2021: 5 December
Image taken from the Bolton Library (K.9.13) on travel.
Bolton Library: ‘The unlimited virtue of books’
A contemporary reference to a new invention… on the penultimate leaf!
