Collections covering many subjects

[16th century] : [Early English Newspapers] : [Hack Collection] : [Paine Collection] : [Private Press] : [Slide Collection] : [Underground Press] : [Wolseley Collection] : Special Collections by subject

16th century material

An extensive private classical library, The Long Collection was donated to the library in 1879. It contains 3,500 volumes, many of which are in Latin and Greek from the 16th century. Notable items include Plato 'Platonis Gnomologia Praecolatina per Locos Communes Perquam Apposite Digestae' 1613 and Aristotle 'Organum Hoc, Libri Omnes ad Logicum Perinentes, Graece et Latine' 1597, as well as his own work 'Summary of Herodotus' 1829.
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Plato Platonis Gnomologia Praecolatina, Genevae (1613) From The Long Collection of 16th century material.

Early English Newspapers from 1642

These Early English Newspapers date from 1642 to the early 20th century. These are on microform so you will need to book a reader-printer machine to view them. To help access the information within these papers you can use the guides and indexes that are kept in the library.
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Hack Collection

Donation of 1,200 books on a wide range of subjects, (Daniel Hack also made donations to Brighton Museum during the late 19th century). Works in this collection include Foxe's ' Book of Martyrs' and Vasari's 'Lives of the Painters'.
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Paine Collection

A member of the library's first sub-committee in 1875, Cornelius Paine donated hundreds of volumes to the library, including many local newspapers from the time. Items donated by him include ' The English Gentleman' 1641 and 'Diseases of Tradesmen'.
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Arms of Jean-Baptiste Colbert from the binding of Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de Essais (Paris, 1657), One of the library's rare books, donated by Charles Thomas-Stanford)

Private Press and Rare Book Collection

This collection includes books produced by private presses of both national renown and the local area. Among the presses represented are the Ashdene press, Essex House Press, Golden Cockerell Press, Nonesuch, Oak Ash and Thorn Press, Vine Press and St Dominic's.
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Slide Collection

Approximately 3,000 slides donated by Ben Harland on a wide range of topographical subjects ranging from East Sussex to the Middle East.
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Engraving by Eric Gill from Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, Vol 4 (Golden Cockerell Press, 1931) This book was published by local publishers Golden Cockerell Press.

Underground Press

This dates from the 1960s and includes 'The Left in Britain', a collection of left wing titles such as Militant. Other titles include Private Eye and Spare Rib. Available only in microform format .
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Wolseley Collection

A large part of the Wolseley Collection consists of the "autograph" letters addressed to Lord Wolseley and his wife, many from people eminent in both the military circles of Victorian society and the arts. Examples of these include:

• Queen Victoria
• Leopold, King of Belgium
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
• Sir Winston S. Churchill
• Lord Randolph Churchill
• 1st Lord Baden-Powell
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Sir Edmund Gosse
• Mark Twain

The collection also includes:

• letters between Wolseley and his family
• papers dealing with his military and administrative careers
• notebooks
• pamphlets
• scrapbooks of Victorian ephemera composed by Frances Wolseley
• Frances Wolseley's diaries
• common place books and notebooks concerning Frances' horticultural interests
• the Sussex Topographies of 117 villages and their more notable houses and families which Frances compiled
• her collection of several thousand bookplates arranged chronologically by country and owner.

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