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1. — 18th June 2010

   Ex Libris: Bookplates at Chetham’s

   Bookplate collecting is a serious business. There is a plethora of collections and collectors lurking in private and in the public domain and, it seems, an entire world devoted to...

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2. — 28th May 2010

   Up in the air

   Senior Librarian Fergus Wilde recently took the opportunity to enjoy the view from a platform sixty feet above Chetham’s medieval buildings. The on-site arrival of a cherry picker for the...

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3. — 14th May 2010

   An eighteenth-century scandal

   This extremely rare, possibly unique, example of local print culture was bought from the bookseller Christian White of Modern First Editions, Ilkley. The work shows that the fascination for celebrity...

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