Abstract
This article highlights the significance of books in the personal library of Enoch Robert Gibbon Salisbury (1819–90), now the Salisbury Library at Cardiff University's Special Collections and Archives. The article outlines the research potential of the library. It considers examples of marginalia in the collection and what these reveal about how books were read and consumed. Salisbury's personal inscriptions provide a unique and untapped insight that goes beyond the book, encompassing the histories of reading and the growth of printing in Wales, as well as the motivations and mind-set of an astute collector. A study of these books' marginalia, authors' corrections and the revealing notes and jottings of their collector has major implications for the history of 'book culture', printing and the art of collecting in Wales.
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