Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of
Added at 11:00 on 10 July 2025
#OnThisDay 10 July 1509 John Calvin, influential French theologian during the Protestant Reformation, and after whom Calvanism was named, was born. The Leighton Library has several of his books including a badly wormed 1569 edition of his "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob." published in Geneva.
Bugs and Books don't mix! To get rid of the bookworm the book was treated by taking to specialist deep freezers and being kept at a temperature of -30C for five days to kill off any bookworm!