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Concordia Winter 2024

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copy of Cicero’s, De Officiis , printed in 1582. Works from scientific literature include a first edition of Napier’s Logarithms , published in 1624. Early catalogues (from 1662 and 1773) are now at Guildhall Library; the school has a printed catalogue of 1826 and a beautiful catalogue of 1876 by the Lambeth Palace Librarian, S. Wayland Kershaw. More recently the collection was catalogued in 1961 by Cormac Rigby and has been relisted by volunteers between 2017 and 2020. When the school moved from its premises at Charterhouse Square in the City of London in 1933, key artefacts were brought to Sandy Lodge, including the Monitors’ and Prompters’ tables which you can now see attached to the walls around the school. The statue of Sir Thomas White, which the boys see every day outside our modern Design and Technology building, also came from the City. There are other works of art which the boys are in close proximity with every day, without perhaps realising it. For example, the exquisite panels on the ceiling of the Dining Room painted

cuttings, and programmes and service sheets for music, choral, religious and other annual school events, have also been collected. A valuable photographic collection dating back to the late 1800s depicts boys organised in their house and sports teams, and provides a rich visual history of the school. The collection also includes artefacts and works of art such as prints and drawings; oil paintings and watercolours; coins and archaeological material; clocks, chairs, textiles, medals, trophies and tableware. Housed in the archive is the rare book collection called the Goad Library. This library was originally assembled by John Goad, Head Master from 1661, who subsequently saved it during the Great Fire of London as the school burnt down on the second day of the fire. The library contains approximately 700 books with key early works of theology, including a Polyglot Bible published in Paris 1645. There is a work by Priscian, the sixth century Latin grammarian, published in Venice in 1470, with the signature of Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson on the front page. And there is the actor David Garrick’s