Chetham’s Library

Chetham’s Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. The library holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851. It also includes a substantial collection of manuscripts, papers, photographs, and pictures.
The library is also the home of this [Common Press], a wooden hand press that is one of only five examples of seventeenth-century presses in England.

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