Knowledge (XXG)

Town Library of Ipswich

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and the corporation paid Basil Breame 3 shillings to draw these on many of the books held by the library in April 1651. A diagonal line was drawn across the fore-edge of the books with additional marks to indicate to which shelf the book belonged.
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The collection was started in 1599 but the first record of a corporation decision to support the library dates to 1610 when they decided to allocate some space in the Grammar School for this purpose. The Ipswich antiquarian
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might be consider the "accidental Founder" of the library as his Latin books were kept in a chest by the Ipswich Corporation until 1612 and then provided an impetus for the corporation to found the library.
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is a collection of 871 titles organised in 944 volumes published between 1474 and 1760. In addition there are 10
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Books published from 1474 to 1760, plus 10 manuscripts. Originally to provide reading material for Town Preacher
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A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales
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Proceedings Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology & History
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was appointed Master of the Ipswich Grammar School in 1650. He introduced a
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52°03′51″N 1°09′06″E / 52.0641°N 1.1516°E / 52.0641; 1.1516
Ipswich School
Ipswich Corporation
manuscripts
Ipswich Corporation
Ipswich Town Preacher
Ipswich School
St Edmundsbury Cathedral Library
Bury St Edmunds
Richard Canning
William Smarte

Cave Beck
fore-edge shelfmarking system
Alsted's Encyclopedia (1630)
Alsted's
Encyclopedia
Books spines on shelves
Terra Sancta, map on display
The Proverbs of Salomon
ISBN
0948170131


ISBN
0851155170
"Ipswich School - a brief history"
"Some ancient Suffolk parochial libraries"
ISBN

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