CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA and Macmillan and Co., Ltd. TORONTO The Macmillan Co. of ΤΟΚΤΟ Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha All rights reserved A PETERHOUSE BIBLIOGRAPHY BEING A LIST OF BOOKS AND By THOMAS ALFRED WALKER LL.D., M.A. (CANTAB.), LITT.D. (VICT.) FELLOW, SENIOR BURSAR AND CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1924 JOHN MACALISTER DODDS, Fellow from 1881, Senior Bursar 1884 to 1915, Senior Tutor 1897 to 1907, died in his Rooms in College in the night of November 12, 1921. A gracious presence covered in him high intellectual attainment, wisdom in counsel, sterling integrity and unfailing loyalty of heart. The lapse of time but strengthens in his colleagues their sense of abiding loss. SIR JAMES DEWAR, Fullerian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution, London, Jacksonian Professor of Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Peterhouse from 1883, died at the Royal Institution on March 27, 1923. To brilliant equipment of mind and of hand and dauntless courage, which won for him a world-wide reputation in the field of scientific discovery, he united, as some men knew, a spirit of singular generosity. When in 1912 Admissions to Peterhouse was published Sir James Dewar insisted on defraying the entire cost of printing whilst remaining anonymous. Personal gratitude would now resolve, if History and Corporate Recognition did not likewise require, that the fact should go on record. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 04-3-4€ LIS Dir. PREFACE HIS BOOK is the direct outcome of a suggestion emanating from the present Master of Peterhouse shortly after his accession to the Headship in 1900 that an attempt should be made to collect in the College Library copies of all works written by or mainly concerned with Peterhouse men. In 1912 the compiler published as an Appendix to Admissions to Peterhouse, 1615-1911, a Hand-List of such MSS. and Printed Books by or concerning Peterhouse men as were then preserved in the College Library. In the course of the past twelve years very many additions have been made to that Hand-List, partly as the result of purchase, partly by a more gratifying process, to wit, the presentation of copies of their works by the authors concerned. The rarer books are displayed in the Library in special show-cases. The present book covers a wider field than the Hand-List. It includes names of authors who are not represented by volumes in the Library collection, and among them some whose claim to rank as Peterhouse men has only been established by research in Buttery and Bakehouse Rolls and other College documents which were in 1912 unexplored. It is not offered as a complete Bibliography even of deceased Peterhouse authors. Reference has been made to the Catalogues of Early Printed Books in the British Museum and the Cambridge University Library, but comparison with other collections, which had been designed, has been by force of circumstances temporarily postponed. A Bibliography of a living Society, as was formerly remarked, can in the natural course of things never be complete. The Catalogue now printed includes all books and editions of Peterhouse interest which have come under the observation of the compiler either by actual sight or in trustworthy record. Some of these books are of extreme rarity, and, unfortunately, of these a not inconsiderable proportion are not represented in the College Library. Books and editions which are to be found in the Library are indicated by a special mark (an asterisk *). It is hoped that the book, even with its limitations, may be of assistance to the biographer of any Peterhouse man, and of particular interest to (and may Time produce him!) any would-be literary historian of the College. It has, be it confessed, yet another object. Peterhouse, the oldest of Cambridge Colleges, was founded by a sagacious prelate, whose design it was to supply a nursery of men competent to serve God in many and various departments of Church and State; and who thought to effect his purpose by making provision for Poor Students in Literarum Scientiâ proficere volentibus. This book may go some way to show that Hugo de Balsham has not missed his mark. |