Frederick North

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Frederick North (1766–1827), the fifth Earl of Guilford and youngest son of Lord North, the prime minister. After North’s death, the library was broken up and sold in seven sales between 1828 and 1835. His books had an ink stamp with a circle enclosing a coronet and a gothic G (for Guilford).

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Shelfmark W/C-4-13/15
Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium illustrationi inservientes, antiqui omnes et religionis reformatione priores: opus, in quo nonnulla chronica huius vicinarumque regionum et urbium ... praesertim Ostfaliae res etiam Atestinorum Longobardiae, et Guelforum superioris Germaniae; vitae item hominum illustrium aut principum ... continentur ... cura G. G. Leibnitii.
Hanover: 1711.
Stamp on title page: a circle enclosing a coronet and a gothic G: the stamp of the Guilford Library.
Shelfmark W/P-1-35
Macarius, Saint, the Elder.. Tou hagiou patros Makariou tou aigyptiou apanta. Sancti patris Macarii aegyptii opera. Io. Georgius Pritius collegit, ....
Leipzig: 1714.
Circular book stamp on title page: coronet and 'G'.