The Holkham library
Subtitle: a history and description
By: D. P. Mortlock ; with a foreword by the Earl of Leicester.
Contributors: Leicester, Edward Coke, Earl, 1936-; Roxburghe Club.
Publisher: Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Leicester, Thomas Coke, -- Earl of, -- d. 1759 -- Library.; Leicester, Thomas William Coke, -- Earl of, -- 1822-1909 -- Library.; Leicester, Thomas William Coke, -- Earl of, -- 1848-1941 -- Library; Leicester, Edward Coke, -- Earl, -- 1936- -- Library; Holkham Library -- History.; Holkham Hall (England) -- History.; Private libraries -- England -- History.; Book collecting -- England.; Illumination of books and manuscripts.; Manuscripts -- Great Britain.
Description: "A detailed description and history of one of the world's finest private libraries, much of which was acquired by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) who built Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The family has added to it and sustained it ever since. The core of the collection concentrates on the Renaissance, however a wide variety of interests are represented, for instance there are Sir Edward Coke's 14th century English manuscripts, a remarkable collection of Civil War and Commonwealth pamphlets, some early broadsides of the Virginia Company, and many other treasures"--Roxburghe Club website, viewed August 11, 2016.
Notes: "300 copies of this special edition have been printed of which 200 are for sale"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135) and index.