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Collection detective: Bookplate leads to rare discovery
A cataloguer in Cardiff University's Library Service turned detective and traced a long-lost book back to the library of Sir Isaac Newton. The book was found within the Cardiff Rare Books Collection, consisting of 14,000 rare and antiquarian books acquired from Cardiff Public Library in 2010.
Since then, extensive work has been ongoing to catalogue all the volumes in the collection. The cataloguing work has unearthed a number of exceptional and rare volumes, but one of the most unexpected results came when the provenance of one of the volumes in the collection was examined and found to have been part of Sir Isaac Newton's library.
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