THE BIBLIOPHILES OF BOWDON

During the winter months a small group of Bibliophile volunteers from the Bowdon Arts Society meet on Thursday mornings to work in the important book collection at Tabley House. This varied and exciting collection, built up by successive generations of the Leicester family, contains works in a variety of languages including Latin, Greek, French as well as English, many of which date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are nearly four thousand books here, many leather bound and some in a fragile state having been originally kept in the earlier house on an Island. Some volumes are in need of careful handling due to age and damp so may require treatment and gentle cleaning. A record is  written for each one which will record its condition and vulnerability . The work is endlessly fascinating as new treasures emerge.