This is the catalogue raisonné of the exhibition at Lambeth Palace (17 May–23 July 2010) which celebrated the quatercentenary of the founding of the library in 1610 by the will of Archbishop Bancroft. The sixty manuscripts, printed books, documents and photographs, ranging from the grandest books to workaday papers – trace the history of English Christianity from the tenth century and of the Church of England from the Reformation to 1967. There is the spectacular twelfth-century Lambeth Bible, the thirteenth-century Lambeth Apocalypse, the Caxton manuscript the Dictes and sayings of the philiosophers (1477), the Arundel choirbook (1525); from the Old Royal Library there is Elizabeth i's multi-lingual, illuminated prayer book, printed by John Day (1569) and sumptuously bound, the warrant for Mary Queen of Scots' execution (1587) and the expurgated manuscript of Eikon Basilike (1662), censored by the Portuguese inquisitor; one volume of William Gladstone's diaries, items from the Church of England Temperance Society (1892), the correspondence of Archbishop Davidson (1903–30). The introductory overview by Richard Palmer (Lambeth Librarian, 1991–2010) is followed by learned catalogue articles by Palmer himself, by Michelle Brown and by other leading scholars and the library's own staff. (A series of exhibition talks looked at fifteen of the exhibits in depth.) The catalogue, elegantly designed, beautifully printed on coated paper and lavishly illustrated, provides an aide-memoire for those who saw the exhibition, and scholarly and visual information for those who did not. There is a table of contents and a name index. Treasures from the collection of the archbishop of Canterbury will provide an authoritative and artistic record for many years to come.