The Library of Anthony Wood.(Book Review)

The Library of Anthony Wood. By NICOLAS K. KIESSLING (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Soc., 2002; pp. 758- N.p.).

SINCE the publication in 1956 of Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson's edition of the library catalogue of John, Lord Lumley, and Sears Jaynes's Library catalogues of the English Renaissance of the same year, there has been continued interest in the contents of English early modern libraries. Among the catalogues that have been published from inventories or reconstructed from various sources are those of Henry VIII, Cranmer, Dr John Dee, the Norfolk squire Sir Thomas Knyvett, Sir Edward Coke, Robert Burton and the rich London dilettante, John Morris. We are well informed about some famous late libraries: Pepys's is preserved at Magdalene …