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Example of a book from a chained library

Abingdon 1

University of Reading Special Collections

University of Reading Special Collections
Reading, United Kingdom

This book was part of a chained library in the Church of St Helen, Abingdon, Oxfordshire – books were attached to book cases with chains to allowed them to be read to prevent them being removed.

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