Essays celebrating different aspects of David Selwyn's career at University of Wales, Lampeter, as theologian, Church historian, bibliographer, and Conservator of the Founders' Library, the university's historic library. Includes bibliographical references. "List of publications by David Selwyn": pages [261]-262.
Contents:
David Selwyn : an appreciation / D.P. Davies -- Books, owners and history : books beyond the texts / David Pearson -- Servant and catalyst : the printer in Wales / Eiluned Rees -- Printing in Poitiers during the French Reformation (1517-1598) / Trevor Peach -- The "Pamphlet War" of the Nonjurors, 1717-1725 : a case study in early eighteenth-century religious polemic / James David Smith -- Archdeacon Thomas Beynon and Lampeter College / Nigel Yates -- Close action off the Coromandel coast : a Founders' Library manuscript and the British fight for India / John Morgan-Guy -- Two sixteenth-century Biblical maps in The Founders' Library, University of Wales, Lampeter / Thomas O'Loughlin -- A journey into Greece / A.J. Brothers -- The bibliography of classical architecture : Vitruvius and after / Ian M. Barton -- The Gothic Revival exported: early Victorian churchbuilding in Sydney, Australia / Barbara Dennis -- The misinterpretations of strangers : autobiography, fiction, faith, and politics in The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold / Peter Miles.
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