This is not a full new blog post but an addendum to January’s post about one of James Campbell’s early-printed books. If some readers were curious what else came to the Library from that former fellow – and Fellow Librarian – the list below should satisfy that curiosity. As with most of the Library’s pre-1801 books published in the British Isles, their vernacular languages, and the wider “British” world, these have been added to the English Short Title Catalogue. Should you want to find what other eligible titles we hold, select the Library Code “bOwo” as one of your Advanced Search options. At the moment only a small proportion of our early-printed books have been catalogued onto SOLO, but in those instances where an ESTC record is lacking, links below have been given to full SOLO records if you want more bibliographical information than the brief summary given.

A couple of the works are worth quickly flagging. No. 12 is an edition of Pope Gregory IX’s Decretals that does not otherwise appear to be held in Oxford. No. 6 seems to be a very early printing of Bentham’s History and antiquities of the church of Ely apparently not otherwise found in the ESTC. Other titles attest to Campbell’s love of East Anglia and his interest in the herring fisheries.

“Bookending” the list of Campbell’s donations are two of his bookplates.

Ben Arnold, Assistant Librarian

1. The will of King Alfred (Oxford, 1788): ESTC T87078
2. The customs of London, otherwise called Arnold’s chronicle (London, 1811): SOLO
3. Baker, R., A chronicle of the kings of England (London, 1684): ESTC R13112
4. Bede.  Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis anglorum libri quinque.  (Cambridge, 1722): ESTC T138993
5. Benson, T., Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum (Oxford, 1701): ESTC T101265
6. Bentham, J., The history and antiquities of the church of Ely (Cambridge, 1770-1771): variant of ESTC T101266 with the normal title page for this issue bound ahead of volume 2, with 1771 as the terminal date in the title and the publication date, and an independent (presumably the original) title page for volume 1 with them both given as 1770.
7. [Cleveland, J.], The idol of the clovvnes, or Insurrection of Wat the Tyler (London, 1654): ESTC R208498
8. Davis, H.E., A reply to Mr Gibbon’s vindication… (London, 1779): ESTC T80327
9. Dugdale, W., Origines juridicales (London, 1671): ESTC R225633
10. Dugdale, W., The antiquities of Warwickshire (2 vols., London, 1730): ESTC T127054
11. The Life, Diary and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, ed. W. Hamper (London, 1827): SOLO
12. [Gregory IX], Decretalium copiosum argumentum (Paris, 1501): this volume seems to be from the same edition as a copy at the Library of Congress; it has early manuscript annotations (some lost when the pages were cut down in size).
13. [Hayward, J.], The first part of the life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII (London, 1599 [actually 1638?]): ESTC S103911
14. Hincmar of Reims, Opera (2 volumes, Paris, 1645): SOLO
15. [Howard, R.], The life and reign of King Richard the Second, by a person of quality (London, 1681): ESTC R229074
16. Madox, T., Formulare Anglicanum (London, 1702): ESTC T97067
17. Madox, T., Baronia Anglica (London, 1736): ESTC T97064
18. Maitland ,W., The history of London (London, 1739): ESTC T100091
19. Nevyll, A., De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce (London, 1575): ESTC S113192
20. Nicholson, W., The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries (London, 1776): ESTC T59467
21. Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae historiae libri vignitiseptem (Basel: apud Thomam Guarinum, 1570): SOLO
22. Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, (Frankfurt, 1601): SOLO
23. [Antoninus, A.], Iter Britanniarum, trans. T. Reynolds (Cambridge, 1799): ESTC T90096
24. Sarpi, P., The Historie of the Councel of Trent, trans. H. Brent (London, 1629): ESTC S116697
25. Selden, J., De successionibus ad leges Ebraeorum in bona defunctorum (Leiden: Elzevir, 1638): SOLO
26. Selden, J., Tracts (London, 1683): ESTC R14343
27. [Skene, A.], Memorialls for the government of the royall-burghs in Scotland (Aberdeen, 1685): ESTC R38926
28. [Sharpe, E.], Britaines busse, or a computation as well of the charge of a busse or herring fishing ship (London, 1615): ESTC S116306
29. Spelman, H., Glossarium archaiologicum (London, 1664): ESTC R14937
30. Spelman, H., The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. (London, 1723): ESTC T130823
31. Suckling, A., The history and antiquities of Suffolk (2 volumes, London, 1846-1848): SOLO
32. Tillet, J. du, Joanni Tilii … Commentariorum et disquisitionum de rebus Gallicis libri duo (Frankfurt, 1579): SOLO
33. Whitaker, T.D. and R. Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (Leeds & Wakefield, 1816): SOLO
34. Whitaker, T.D., Loidis and Elmete (Leeds & Wakefield, 1816): SOLO