Chetham's Library MS A.2.9

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Cartmel Priory Church: Catalogue of the books given by Thomas Preston. Compiled by John Harland.

46 leaves of lined paper 17.5 x 11.6 cms, unnumbered. Text on verso only of leaves 1-21. In Harland's hand.

1. A | Catalogue of the Books | belonging to | Cartmel Church | given by | Thomas Preston, Esquire, of Holker Hall, | With the Date [of each work] when printed.

Nos. 1-70 are duodecimo and smaller. Nos. 71-140 are 8vo etc. Nos. 141-210 are Quarto etc. Nos. 211-294 are folio etc. 

At foot of f. 14:

12mo & smaller: 70 Books or vols.
8vo                    70
Quarto               70
Folio                  84
                         ___
                         294 Volumes

f. 15 Pamphlets & Tracts | (chiefly small quarto) (Copied from Title-Pages respectively by J.H.)

No numbers in Catalogue. Nos. here given by J.H.

Nos. 1-34

Rest of book blank.

Compare:
The ancient library in Cartmel Priory Church. History by Sam. Taylor, Catalogue by David Ramage. Second edition enlarged and corrected. Durham, 1959 (017.8342 Ca6931). The first printing was in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland A.&A. Soc. N.S.55 (1956), pp. 213-246.

England, Church of: Central Council for the Care of Churches: The parochial libraries of the Church of England. [Ed. N.R. Ker] 1959. p. 73: '[c.300] The books, with a few exceptions (see Christie, pp. 76-7) were bequeathed by Thomas Preston of Holker, d. 1697 "to be placed in the new vestry". They were catalogued in 1698 (extracts by Christie, pp. 82-93)...'

Christie, Richard Copley: The old Church and School libraries of Lancashire. Chetham Society, N.S.7 1885  pp. 76-94.

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