Treasures of the Manchester Libraries
Meet: At the entrance of John Rylands Library, Deansgate.
Date: Thursday 19 March 2020, 2.30pm.
Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite.
An unmissable opportunity to gaze in awe at literary rarities and first editions including the oldest piece of the New Testament in existence, first folios of Shakespeare, Newton’s Principia Mathematica, a very early banned Ulysses and other priceless treasures from the rare collections of three great Manchester libraries.
• Guide: Ed Glinert (Penguin author, editor of the Sherlock Holmes stories for Penguin Classics), at his antiquarian best.