This English translation of Boccaccio's tragedies is signed by John, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), one time High Steward of Oxford University, later imprisoned for his implication in the Ridolfi Plot to overthrow Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

An ornate binding bearing Queen Elizabeth I's arms to a volume which contains Edward VI's copy of Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani (1529).

An inscription to Queen Elizabeth I from Tobias Matthew, Bishop of Durham, later Archbishop of York and a key figure in Elizabeth's church establishment, found at the front of an ornately decorated copy of Precationes aliquot celebriores e sacris Bibliis desumptae (Paris, 1544).

One of Elizabeth I's badges (a crowned falcon holding a sceptre) stamped in gilt on an edition of Valerius Maximus (1544), which she used in memory of her mother Anne Boleyn because it was used at her coronation. Given by Peter Gunning.

A binding of embroidered velvet with the badge of Queen Elizabeth I on an anti-Catholic treatise, The castle of Christianitie by Lewis Evans (London, 1568). There is no record of it having been owned by Elizabeth, but she did apparently prefer velvet bindings in her own library, especially in red.

This copy of Erasmus's work on the education of princes, Institutio principis Christiani (1529), bears several overlapping marks of provenance, all of which point to a connection with Tudor monarchs. It appears to have been Edward VI's personal copy and there are notes in his hand, in Latin and Greek.

There are over twenty volumes in St John's Library which once belonged to Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg. All except one of these bear similar alum-tawed, white pigskin bindings over wooden boards, decorated with blind-stamped panels and rolls, of a type that was popular in Germany from 1550 to 1640. They all have Mespelbrunn's arms stamped and then painted in red and black on the front cover, and several also have a gilt mark of ownership pressed into the fore-edge of the textblock, together with the title of the particular volume.

This black morocco binding boasts fine gold-tooling in a "rectangular" design, incorporating the crowned initials "C.C." within palm branches. This is typical of the work produced for Charles II by his bookbinder Samuel Mearne, who may have introduced the "rectangular" style to England, where it became very popular in the later 17th and early 18th centuries.

An emblem book bound for Charles I. This fine gilt binding is decorated with the arms of Charles, Duke of York, later Charles I. As Charles was Duke of York from 1605-1612 this binding must date from that period, and must have been produced in one of the London binderies.