Bound by the 'Scales' binder of London (G.D. Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge libraries pp.14-16.). From Duns Scotus' Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum (Venice, 1481). The second image shows a detail of a distinctive 'Scales' stamp.

It is not clear exactly who Joseph Jenoure might be, although several members of a family bearing this name and hailing from Bigods in Essex are to be found attending the University in the 17th and 18th centuries.

An edition of Cowper's poems (1788) bearing the inscription of John Heyrick on the title page, and with the wax seal of the Heyrick or Herrick family on the front pastedown. Heyrick's First flights was published in the year of his death.

Two of several inscriptions in a volume containing The way to the holy lande (1524), William Thomas' History of Italie (1549), and an English translation of the Gesta Romanorum (1510), all bearing the name of Myles Blomefylde.

This manuscript verse entitled 'An elogy upon the author in this 13th song' is found in a copy of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1622), a long topographical poem describing the counties of England. It is signed at the bottom with the initials J.B. and elsewhere the volume bears an inscription saying that it was given by Francis Wortley to John Bladen, so he appears to be the author of the verse.

An example of a distinctive 18th century style of bookplate, the 'bookpile' bookplate, bearing a monogram of the initals J.M., and possibly belonging to John Marlar, who had a similar bookplate made for himself bearing his full name and his residence, Mitcham Common in Surrey. For further details see Brian North Lee's Bookpile bookplates (1992).

Gilt leather bookplate of Edward Hailstone, Yorkshire solicitor, churchwarden and book collector, from John Bond's King Charles his welcome home (1641). Hailstone left his sizeable library to York Minster.

Gilt leather bookplate bearing the crest and motto of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, from an edition of Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall (1769).

Donated by Hugh Gatty.

Hand-sketched coat of arms with the legend "Di Carlo Maruccelli", from an early edition of the Imitatio Christi (1493) from the Yule collection.

An unidentified coat of arms drawn on the front fly-leaves of a volume containing The capitulations and articles of peace betweene the Maiestie of the King of England, Scotland, France, & Ireland &c. and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Constantinople, 1663).

Donated by Robert Lambert.