Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: national expectations; 2. The Copyright Act of 1710; 3. John Moore and his circle; 4. The making of the Royal Library; 5. The challenge of the Royal Library; 6. Benefactors, curiosities and strangers; 7. New buildings and old problems; 8. Richard Farmer; 9. Thomas Kerrich; 10. The national stage: the Copyright Act of 1814; 11. The end of the old regime; 12. 'Doctrinae et scientiae incrementa'; 13. Joseph Power and the distribution of responsibility; 14. The copyright agency; 15. New directions; 16. Turbulent years: J. E. B. Mayor; 17. Bradshaw in command; 18. Other men's flowers; 19. Bradshaw at bay; Appendix: list of librarians, 1686–1886; Index of manuscripts; General index.

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The second volume of the history of the Cambridge University Library examining its significance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.