National Heritage Week – Unique and Distinctive

National Heritage Week 2022: The Bolton Library A to Z

Showcasing the best of the Bolton Library for National Heritage Week 2022

Zodiac Planet Man A volume for the spiritual begins with the corporeal, the temporal, […]

Yellow Textblock edges stained a solid block of colour can be a useful indicator […]

X Pattern So few bindings survive from the turn of the 13th century that […]

Waste Some of the material in the Bolton Library has taken a rather more […]

Valuable ‘NB. I found this valuable book fast falling in pieces and almost destroyed […]

Unique Cataloguing in the 21st century, with access to digital catalogues and images worldwide, […]

Tudor Binding Contemporary/ original bindings are the norm in the Bolton Library, and this […]

Sammelbands Distinct works, originally published separately and subsequently bound together in one volume, usually […]

Recycling The collection features many examples of historic thrift. In Bolton Library I.17.24, the […]

Powerful Queens Queen Elizabeth I hampered the printing in its entirety of Bolton Library […]

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