Edmund Geste and his books : reconstructing the library of a Cambridge don and Elizabethan bishop /
Selwyn, David G.,1938-author.
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain),publisher.
Additional content available online at the Bibliographical Society's website--See note, page vi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Geste's career as a book collector: I. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Elizabethan bishop: A little known collection -- Geste and his Yorkshire connexions -- Geste at King's College, Cambridge -- The reign of Mary: an exile from Cambridge -- Preferment under Elizabeth I -- Geste and liturgical refom -- The Articles of Religion -- The Bishops' Bible -- II. Reconstructing Geste's library: Geste's bequest of 1577 and its significance -- Geste's ownership inscriptions -- Books with annotations and manuscript notes -- Geste' s binding instructions and notes -- Book-titles on fore-edges or spines -- Small-tool or centre-tool bindings -- Early press marks -- III. Geste's collection as it survives today: The size and scope of the collection -- Geste's non-theological books -- Geste and the study of theology -- Geste and the study of Scripture -- The Church Fathers -- Scholastic and late-medieval books -- Contemporary scholarship and theology -- Christian humanism -- Reformed Protestants -- Other Protestants and religious radicals -- Lutheran writers -- Contemporary Catholic works -- English writers -- Liturgy -- Geste's legacy to Salisbury Cathedral -- Geste's continental acquisitions -- Geste as book owner -- Geste's contemporary bindings -- Geste's second-hand acquisitions -- Geste's new acquisitions -- Geste's continental bindings -- V. The importance of Geste' s collection -- Catalogue of the library.
Appendices: I. Other books which may have belonged to Geste -- II. Index of publishers and printers -- III. Chronological index of imprints -- IV. Bindings (A. Blind-stamped panels ; B. Blind-tooled rolls ; C. Centrepiece ; D. Centre-tools and ornaments ; E. Corner-ornaments ; F. Plain calf bindings ; G. Parchment covers ; H. Re-bound books -- V. Concordance of early press marks -- VI. Concordance of current shelfmarks  -- VII. Early book-titles on spines or fore-edges -- VIII. Binding notes and instrnctions -- IX. Pastedowns -- X. Index of provenances and former owners -- XI. Indices to books with MS annotations (1. Author index -- 2. Subject index) -- XII. Indices to authors (1. Biblical works -- 2. Patristic and pre-scholastic works and authors -- 3. Scholastic and late-medieval works and authors -- 4. Humanists -- 5. Hebrew works and authors -- 6. Contemporary Catholics -- 7. Lutherans -- 8. Bucer and the Strasbourg Reformers -- 9. Reformed-Protestants -- 10. Other Protestants and religious radicals -- 11. English writers) -- XIII. Concordance of Geste's books in The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue -- Index to the Introduction.
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577.
Salisbury Cathedral. Library.
Books and reading
Private libraries
Reformation
Book collecting
Book collectors
Bookbinding
Early printed books