John Morgan-Guy is Hon Professor of Practice (Cultural History) at University of Wales Trinity St David.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors1Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library2The Royal Charter of 18283Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College4David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College5Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae6The Lampeter Bible7The Boddam Hours8Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium9Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda auria)10The Schoffer Missal of 149911The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 151112Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium13Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum14Walter Ralegh and The History of the World15Gerhard Mercator and Atlas16Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants17George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a18‘Isaac Bickerstaff’ and Predictions for the Year 170819The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review20Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering21Satire and Humour in Bowdler T26922William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des chinois23A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth 1759–6124Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology25The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple26Dutch Voyages into the Pacific27Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas28Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie29Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian30Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence31John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales32William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation33Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus34William Alexander and The Costume of China35Hannah More and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife36John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse37Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta38John Ross and A voyage of discovery39John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra40John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway41John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas42Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the FutureBibliographyIndex

John Morgan-Guy is Hon Professor of Practice (Cultural History) at University of Wales Trinity St David.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors1Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library2The Royal Charter of 18283Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College4David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College5Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae6The Lampeter Bible7The Boddam Hours8Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium9Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda auria)10The Schoffer Missal of 149911The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 151112Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium13Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum14Walter Ralegh and The History of the World15Gerhard Mercator and Atlas16Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants17George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a18‘Isaac Bickerstaff’ and Predictions for the Year 170819The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review20Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering21Satire and Humour in Bowdler T26922William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des chinois23A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth 1759–6124Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology25The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple26Dutch Voyages into the Pacific27Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas28Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie29Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian30Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence31John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales32William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation33Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus34William Alexander and The Costume of China35Hannah More and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife36John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse37Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta38John Ross and A voyage of discovery39John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra40John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway41John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas42Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the FutureBibliographyIndex

John Morgan-Guy is Hon Professor of Practice (Cultural History) at University of Wales Trinity St David.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors1Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library2The Royal Charter of 18283Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College4David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College5Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae6The Lampeter Bible7The Boddam Hours8Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium9Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda auria)10The Schoffer Missal of 149911The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 151112Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium13Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum14Walter Ralegh and The History of the World15Gerhard Mercator and Atlas16Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants17George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a18‘Isaac Bickerstaff’ and Predictions for the Year 170819The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review20Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering21Satire and Humour in Bowdler T26922William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des chinois23A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth 1759–6124Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology25The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple26Dutch Voyages into the Pacific27Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas28Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie29Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian30Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence31John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales32William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation33Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus34William Alexander and The Costume of China35Hannah More and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife36John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse37Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta38John Ross and A voyage of discovery39John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra40John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway41John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas42Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the FutureBibliographyIndex