A clerical diversion: retracing the provenance of a 17th century volume in the Rare Books Collection

By Lavinia Griffiths, Foyle Special Collections Library, King’s College London Outstanding among the treasures of the Foyle Special Collections Library are its holdings of rare books: some 12,000 printed items, from a 1483 edition of the Punica of Silius Italicus to first editions of the novels of Charles Dickens and the Left Book Club’s 1937 …