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September 11, 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Conserving Rare Books at King’s College, Cambridge

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Spend nine minutes gazing at some beautiful books and learning how King’s College Library conserves a collection of rare English literature and theology books that belonged to an early nineteenth-century college provost. A First Folio and Jane Austen first editions are among them.

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