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In 1617 William Hakewill, an English lawyer and MP, commissioned this "Jacobean Travelling Library", a big book holding 50 smaller books by Ovid, Seneca, Cicero, Virgil, Tacitus, and Saint Augustine, bound in vellum covers with coloured fabric ties. This one is part of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds. Three other Jacobean Travelling Libraries were made. They now reside at the British Library, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio.
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