An incomplete Copy of Collier’s Essays, in 8vo.
Hobbes’s Leviathan. London, 1651, folio.
The Natural History of Animals. London, 1702, fol.
Bacon’s Essays.
The Poll for Yorkshire in 1807, 8vo.
Pemberton’s View of the Newtonian Philosophy. London, 1728, 4to.
The French and Italian Works include those of Boileau, Ariosto’s Orlando
Furioso, Venet. 1566, 8vo. Boccaccio’s Decameron, 1552, 8vo. Dante, 1551,
8vo. Tasso’s Gierusalem liberata, Ferrara, 1580, 8vo.
The Publications of the Record Commissioners are presented to the Chapter
Library as they appear, and are therein deposited with the Reports of
the Commissioners; the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; the Catalogue
of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum; and the Population
Returns.
There is a Copy of the Common Prayer in the Castilian language, in this
Collection, and a small 4to. volume, containing, “A Register of Books
borrowed from the Chapter Library, 1826,” is constantly kept there for
the use of those who frequent it.
These are not numerous, for the place wears the aspect of neglect, and
a beggarly account of empty cases disappoints the ardent enquirer for
intellectual food: he seeks for Books, and in some Presses finds only a
stone.
Bishop Keene, it appears, pitying the forlorn condition of the Chapter
Library, and having some tomes too ponderous for removal, upon his own
translation from Chester to Ely gave the following volumes to the Dean
and Chapter of Chester.
_Folio._
Brent’s Conc. Trent, 1676.
Bayle’s Dictionary. 4 vols.
Ciceronis Epistolæ. Par. 1557.
Life of the Duc d’Espernon. Par. 1655.
Homer, Castalionis. Bas. 1567.
Montfaucon, by Humphrys. Lond. 1721.
Poli Synopsis, 5 tom. Lond. 1673.
Cæsar, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1658.
Daniel, Hist. de la Milicie Française. Par. 1728.
Felibien’s Principles of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting,
in French. Par. 1697.
_Quarto._
The History of France to the death of Louis XIVth, in French.
Par. 1749.
Leger’s Country House, in French. Amst. 1701, 2 tom. in 1 vol.
Miege’s French Dictionary. Lond. 1677.
Tacitus, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1665.
Wicquefort’s Ambassadour, in French. Col. 1715, 2 tom.
_In Formâ Minori._
Boileau’s Works in French. Amst. 1735, 4 tom.
Batteux, Les Beaux Arts. Par. 1747.
Daniel’s History of France, Fr. Par. 1724, 9 tom.
Fauchon’s French Grammar. Cam. 1751.
Larrey’s History of Lewis XIV. Rotter. 1718, 9 tom.
“Aprilis Mense, 1771, Libros hos
Reverendus admodùm Edmundus Keene, S.T.P.
Episcopus Cestriensis
Nunc Eliensis
D. D.”
[Illustration]
Library of Chichester.
The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester is preserved in the
Chapter House, which forms the Eastern termination of the Cathedral.
This room, of very fair proportions, is lighted by several large windows,
and adorned with Portraits of George I. and the Dukes of Richmond and
Newcastle over the fire-place at the east end, and of William and Mary,
in one picture, over the doorway at the other.
Upon the desk lie some Episcopal relics which have been of late years
found in the Cathedral, and which have been engraved in one large plate
for the benefit of the curious.
The Books are placed upon open shelves in tall cases of stained wood,
with cornices, standing against the wall, three marked R. T. Y. being on
one side, and three marked S. W. Z. on the other side of the room.
The contents of these cases are alphabetically enumerated in a thin
folio volume in an old hand, the sizes of the Books being omitted, but
reference being made to their position on the shelves, whereby the eye
may be made to supply this deficiency. To this Catalogue, which bears
the title of “Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cicestrensis Catalogus
Alphabeticus,” interfoliary additions have from time to time been made.
In another Book are entered the Books which may be borrowed from the
Library.
This Collection is very respectably attired, being chiefly bound in
old calf, occasionally gilt, and consists chiefly of Theological and
Historical Works, in tolerably good preservation.