Posts in 'Rare Books'

In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France. Fry...

A selection of guidebooks for students engaged in the study of the law. Thomas Lane. The student’s guide through Lincoln’s Inn. 3rd edition. London...

A selection legal dictionaries and grammar books. Repertorium aureum continens titulos quinque librorum Decretalium, sive Concordantiae utriusque...

A selection student notebooks and marginalia Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri IV. Amsterdam: Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1642. This copy of...

A selection of works which use various visual devices (charts, illustrations, diagrams…) to present information in interesting ways Giovanni d’Andrea...

In Sir Thomas Littleton’s (1407-1481) time, materials for the study of law were scarce. Littleton orginally wrote the Tenures in order to help his son...

The Rare Book Collection welcomes students back to YLS! Some students come to the Rare Book Room on L2 to research historical topics; some are doing...