The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum Paperback 9781108031189
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The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech MuseumComprising the Books Formerly Belonging to the Wisbech Literary Society, and those of the Townshend Bequest\nAuthor(s): Anonymous\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108031189, 978-1108031189\nSynopsis\nWisbech in north Cambridgeshire was a wealthy port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was home to bankers, writers and influential social reformers including Thomas Clarkson. Its museum, founded in 1847, contains about six thousand books bequeathed by Chauncy Hare Townshend [tel], a friend of Charles Dickens who shared Dickens' fascination with mesmerism and the occult. His library was typical of 'a gentleman of wealth and great culture' and contained works of fiction in several languages, non-fiction and science, many of which were rare and finely bound. Since 1877 the Museum has also housed the library of the Wisbech Literary Societ.
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