William Grylls and the Grylls Collection

The Grylls Collection of around 7000 volumes was bequeathed to Trinity College by alumnus Revd William Grylls in 1863. A typical nineteenth-century gentleman's library, it came from his home, Polsloe Park, in Exeter and is estimated to require approximately 300 linear metres of shelving. The Collection contains incunabula (books printed before 1501), a Shakespeare First …