University Librarian at Cambridge from 1867 until his death, Henry Bradshaw (1831 86) had inherited from his banker father an important library of Irish printed books and pamphlets assembled in the early nineteenth century. Having added to it, Bradshaw generously presented the collection to the University Library in 1870, and it has been expanding ever since. Published in 1916, this three-volume catalogue was compiled by the bibliographer Charles Edward Sayle (1864 1924). The works listed here, numbering more than 8,000 items and dating from the early seventeenth century through to the late...

University Librarian at Cambridge from 1867 until his death, Henry Bradshaw (1831 86) had inherited from his banker father an important library of Irish printed books and pamphlets assembled in the early nineteenth century. Having added to it, Bradshaw generously presented the collection to the University Library in 1870, and it has been expanding ever since. Published in 1916, this three-volume catalogue was compiled by the bibliographer Charles Edward Sayle (1864 1924). The works listed here, numbering more than 8,000 items and dating from the early seventeenth century through to the late...

University Librarian at Cambridge from 1867 until his death, Henry Bradshaw (1831 86) had inherited from his banker father an important library of Irish printed books and pamphlets assembled in the early nineteenth century. Having added to it, Bradshaw generously presented the collection to the University Library in 1870, and it has been expanding ever since. Published in 1916, this three-volume catalogue was compiled by the bibliographer Charles Edward Sayle (1864 1924). The works listed here, numbering more than 8,000 items and dating from the early seventeenth century through to the late...