Awakening a Curate's Library: the Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): his Life, his Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand

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TitleAwakening a Curate's Library: the Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): his Life, his Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsKerr, Donald
Number of Pages360 pp.
PublisherThe Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
CityMelbourne, Australia
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780645666205
Abstract

This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts
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Contents:
Introduction; Southwark, Ramsgate, and educational beginnings; St John's College, Cambridge, and Sizar Shoults; Certainties at college, 1856-59; Book collecting contextualised; First step: Assistant Curate, St. Peter's, Walworth, 1863-65; St. Paul's, Hoxton, 1866-69; Father Ignatius and 'Father Cyril'; St. Michael's, Shoreditch, 1873-75; Hymns at St. Edmund the King and Martyr, Lombard Street, 1875-79; A loving marriage and travel; The collection I: Church fathers and the scriptures; The collection II: The Middle East; The collection III: European manuscripts, Incunables, and tools of the trade; The collection IV: Last readings and contemporary magazines; Provenance and the traffic of books; Lists and jottings: evidence of use; Treasures to New Zealand and Shoult's legacy.

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