The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Philip Rylands was appointed director of the collection in 2000.

Rylands was originally a small settlement around Beeston Lock, comprising some tens of houses and two pubs, although the name now refers to all of the area south of the railway line.

A fourth post office did exist in the Rylands part of town, but was closed in January 2008 as part of a wider review.

When the family moved from the house in 1946, the missal went with them, and was held for safe-keeping in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.

Gielgud's Hamlet was later taken to Elsinore Castle in Denmark ( the actual setting of the play ), there was a 1944 production directed by George Rylands, and finally a 1945 production that toured the Far East under Gielgud's own direction.

The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands.

Mrs Rylands intended the library to be principally theological, and the building, which is a fine example of Victorian Gothic, has the appearance of a church, although the concept was of an Oxford college library on a larger scale.

The core of the library's collection was formed around 40, 000 books, including many rarities, assembled by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, which Mrs Rylands purchased from Lord Spencer in 1892.

The site chosen by Mrs Rylands was in a central and fashionable part of the city, but was awkward in shape and orientation and surrounded by tall warehouses, derelict cottages and narrow streets.

When the library opened, the main reading room on the first floor, 30 feet above the ground and 12 feet from all four boundaries, was noted for the pleasant contrast between the ' sullen roar ' of Manchester and the ' internal cloister quietude of Rylands '.

A pitched roof was part of Champneys's original design but not built as Mrs Rylands was advised that an internal stone vault would reduce the fire risk.

It was part of the Victoria University of Manchester library from 1904 and transferred to the John Rylands Library after the merger in 1972.

Duff was responsible for the original library catalogue, compiled between 1893 and 1899: Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester ; ed.

Dr Guppy began publication of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library in 1903 ; it later became a journal publishing academic articles and from autumn 1972 the title was changed to the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester ( further slight changes have occurred since ).

John Rylands ( 7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888 ) was an English entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Rylands was the third son of Joseph Rylands, a manufacturer of cotton goods, of St Helens, Lancashire, and his wife Elizabeth ( née Pilkington ).

In 1901, Mrs Rylands paid £ 155, 000 for more than 6, 000 manuscripts owned by James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall.

Gash is an ex-policeman and, although much more likeable than Rylands ( of the Brighton episodes ) he does have very different ideas about the job to Marker.

Tout was actively involved in the life and running of Manchester University, but, apart from letters from A. W. Ward, his papers, now housed in the John Rylands Library, contain more information on general academic affairs elsewhere around the country and about his own historical research than the affairs of his own University.

Statutory provisions, such as the Environmental Protection Act 1990, were a more modern and appropriate way of addressing environmental problems which would previously have been covered by Rylands.

Basil Champneys ( 17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935 ) was an architect and author whose more notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Newnham College, Cambridge, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.

John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands, had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale — The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on January 1, 1900, it is one of Champneys ' finest designs.

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

It is housed at the John Rylands University Library.

UMIST students were entitled to use the facilities of the Victoria University, including the John Rylands University Library at the Oxford Road site and sports facilities and social clubs organised by the students ' unions.

This involved the necessity for the weir at Beeston Rylands to maintain the water level to supply the canal through to Trent Bridge.

Over the first few decades of the 20th century, several estates were built to house the workers at Ericssons and Boots, both of which had large factory sites also south of the railway line, and these estates joined Beeston and Rylands.

During 1999, Hyder Industrial Ltd. built the UK ’ s largest " run-of river " hydro-electric plant at Beeston Rylands Weir.

Most of the Freeman collection is at the John Rylands University Library, Oxford Road.

* Edward Freeman papers ; at the John Rylands Library

Peter Hall began acting as a student at Cambridge university, where Dadie Rylands taught him to speak Shakespearean verse.

Librarians at John Rylands before its merger include Edward Gordon Duff in 1899 and 1900 and Henry Guppy between 1899 and 1948 ( joint Librarian with Duff until 1900 ).

From 1857, John Rylands lived at Longford Hall, in Stretford, an Italianate mansion he built on the site of an earlier house.

Rylands died at his home, Longford Hall, on 11 December 1888, at the age of 87.

In spring and summer 2012 it was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the exhibition ' The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context '.

The Annie Horniman Papers are held in the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester.

In 1867 Ben Rylands founded the Hope Glassworks at Stairfoot on what is now derelict land alongside the Aldi supermarket.

Hiram Codd joined Ben Rylands in partnership at Stairfoot in May 1877.

In 1882 Codd admitted Ben's son, Dan Rylands as a partner at Stairfoot.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St. John's fragment, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3. 5 by 2. 5 inches ( 8. 9 by 6 cm ) at its widest ; and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library ( Gr. P. 457 ), Manchester, UK.