Blind-stamped monogram incorporating the initials A.V.O.C., representing the Amsterdam branch of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or Dutch East India Company. From the front cover of the first Malay language edition of the New Testament (Amsterdam, 1668), which was published at the expense of the Company expressly for use in evangelism overseas.

The gold-stamped arms of Du Bourg de Sainte-Croix. From Monicart's poetic celebration of Versaille, Versailles immortalise, ou les merveilles parlantes de Versailles (Paris, 1720).

Given by Madeline Louise Charlotte Money.

The gold-stamped crest of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, which graces the covers of a copy of the second edition of a work of religious controversy which he authored, attacking both Catholics and Quakers, The Protestant religion is a sure foundation and principle of a true Christian (1671).

Donated by Thomas Baker.

Gold-stamped arms of Walter Covert, of Kent, from an English translation of Matthieu's Histoire de Louys XI (1614).

Gold-stamped arms of John FitzGibbon, the second Earl of Clare, from Steuart's The planter's guide (1828). John was Governor of Bombay from 1830-34, and Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick, as well as being admired by Lord Byron in his youth, and fighting a duel to defend his father's posthumous reputation.

Gold-stamped arms of Charles William Henry Montagu Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Queensberry, officer, Tory M.P. for Marlborough, and Grand-Master of Free-Masons 1800-02, from a French biography of Jonathan Swift (1808).

Given by Ralph Hare Griffin.

The gold-stamped crest of Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde on the covers of an edition of Thomas Aquinas's Summa contra gentiles (1587). There were four earls of Clanricarde with this name (the 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th) and it is unclear which one this stamp belonged to, although it is unlikely to have been the second earl as he died in 1582. It seems possible that it could have belonged to the fourth earl as he was studying at Christ Church College in Oxford at around the time the book was produced.

The arms shown here have been attributed to John Blythe, a 17th-century lawyer. They appear here on an early Florentine edition of Aristophanes (1525).

Given by Delaval Shafto Ingram.

At least three volumes in St John's Library bear the gold-stamped arms of Rachel Bourchier, Countess of Bath, and two of these also bear her bookplate.

17th-century gold-tooled brown morocco for John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and later Archbishop of York, from a presentation copy of Francis Mason's Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae, siue, De legitimo eiusdem ministerio, id est, de episcoporum success