Arranged alphabetically by author:
G.G. Coulton, Fourscore Years. An Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971. [George Gordon Coulton taught at Sherborne School 1889-1892]
Geoffrey Faux, A Victorian Odyssey: The 1858-1872 Letters of Mungo Travers Park. (Privately published, 2017) [Mungo Travers Parker taught at Sherborne School 1869-1880]
Peter Foss (ed.), The Diary of a Sherborne Schoolboy: Llewelyn Powys’s Diary for 1903 (London: Cecil Woolf, 2005) [Llewelyn Powys was a pupil at Sherborne School 1899-1903]
Peter Foss (ed.), The Diary of a Reluctant Teacher: Llewelyn Powys’s Diary for 1908 (London: Cecil Woolf, 2006) [Llewelyn Powys taught at Sherborne Prep School in 1909]
Patrick Francis, Vivat Shirburnia. Sherborne School and the Great War, 1914-1918 (London & Oxford: Impress, 2014). Photography by David Ridgway.
Patrick Francis, Old Yet Ever Young. A New History of Sherborne School (Exeter: Short Run Press, 2020). Photography by David Ridgway.
J.H.P. Gibb, Interim Report of Excavations carried out at the west end of Sherborne Abbey in 1964 & 1965 by Sherborne School Archaeological Society (c.1965)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne. With an appendix on documentary evidence by R.D.H. Gem (reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, Vol.132, for 1975)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Battle of the Fonts and the Great Fire of Sherborne Abbey (Sherborne, c.1985)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Monastic Buildings of the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne c.1530 (Sherborne, 1998)
J.H.P. Gibb, Sherborne Abbey Walk Round Guide (Friends of Sherborne Abbey, 1985)
J.H.P. Gibb, Sketches of Sherborne School (Sherborne, 1997)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne. An Account of Excavations carried out by Sherborne School Archaeological Society 1964-1968 (reprinted from The Shirburnian, 1969)
D.F. Gibbs, A History of Cricket at Sherborne School (Sherborne School, 1980)
D.F. Gibbs, A History of (Rugby) Football at Sherborne School (Sherborne School, 1983)
A.B. Gourlay, A History of Sherborne School (Sherborne: Sawtells Ltd., 1971)
A.B. Gourlay & D.F. Gibbs, Chief. A Biography of Alexander Ross Wallace 1891-1982 (Sherborne School, 1983)
Robert Hands, Rugby Football at Sherborne School, with a foreword by J.A. Tallent (Sherborne School, 1991)
James Henderson, The Organs of Sherborne School (Sherborne: 2012)
Oliver Holt, Nowell Smith and his Sherborne: A Memoir (Oxford: Oxonian Press, 1955)
Oliver Holt, Three Sherborne Memoirs (1987) Includes ‘On First Coming to Sherborne: Some Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in October 1983′; ‘Littleton Powys’, a talk given to the Powys Society in September 1981; ‘Next Steps at Sherborne: More Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in December 1986.
H.C. Hughes & W.B. Wildman (eds.), A Guide to the Neighbourhood of Sherborne and Yeovil (Sherborne School Archaeological Society, 1911)
A.F. Leach, ‘Sherborne School before, under, and after Edward VI’, reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, March 1898.
L.N. Parker, Several of My Lives (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928) [Louis Napoleon Parker was Director of Music at Sherborne School 1873-1892, and Master of the 1905 Sherborne Pageant]
Rev. John Louis Petit, ‘Sherborne, Dorsetshire’, a lecture given at Oxford in 1850, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, 1851 (London: George Bell, 1853)
B. Pickering Pick (ed.), The Sherborne Register 1550-1950 (Winchester: Warren & Son Ltd., 4th ed., 1950)
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937) [Littleton Charles Powys was a pupil at Sherborne School 1886-94 and Headmaster of Sherborne Prep School 1905-23]
J.P. Riley, The History of the Sherborne School Cadet Force, 1888-1988 (Sherborne: Shelleys, 1988)
Nowell C. Smith (ed.), Old Shirburnian Navy & Army List, 1914-1919, with a preface by Nowell Smith (Sherborne: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 3rd ed., 1921)
H.S. Torrens, ‘The Sherborne School Museum and the Early Collections and Publications of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club’, off-print from The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1976, Vol. 98.
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Fifty Years: Being the Main Decisions of the Sherborne Games Committee (1884-1934), together with Some Relevant Memoranda and an Outline of the Development of Games Organization (c.1934)
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, A Housemaster’s Belief (May 1929)
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Their Prime of Life: A Public School Study (Winchester: The Wykeham Press, 1956)
A.R. Waugh & H.H. Wyatt-Smith, Photographs of the Teams Who Have Represented Sherborne School at Football & Cricket 1901-1915 (Sherborne: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 1915)
W.B. Wildman, King Alfred’s Boyhood, and the Date of His Death (Sherborne: 1898). Inscribed ‘Best Love. WBW. 30.3.98’.
W.B. Wildman, Life of S. Ealdhelm. First Bishop of Sherborne (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1905).
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 1896) No.1 of limited edition of 100 copies. Signed W.B. Wildman.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 2nd ed., 1902). Inscribed ‘W. Mabel Wildman from W.B. Wildman, 5th June 1902’. No. 1 of a limited edition of 130.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 1911, 3rd ed., 1911). Formerly the property of W.J. Bensly. With annotations by W.J. Bensly.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 3rd ed., 1911). Signed and annotated by W.B. Wildman. No.51 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. Town and Abbey Section (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 4th ed., 1930). Edited by J.W.B and W.J. Bensly.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. School Section (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 4th ed., 1930). Edited by J.W.B and W.J. Bensly.
A Guide to the Neigbourhood of Sherborne & Yeovil, written by Masters & Boys of Sherborne School, with a preface by Nowell Smith (Sherborne School Archaeological Society, 1925)
Duffers Jubilee 1898-1948, with a foreword by Alexander Ross Wallace. Includes articles by Reginald Stanley Thompson, Francis William King, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Geoffrey O’Hanlon (Sherborne: 1949)
Sherborne School for Girls Old Girls’ Union membership list, 1899-1952
See also:
- Books written by or about Old Shirburnians & members of the School Staff
- Historic Library & Rare Book Collection
- The Shirburnian (school magazine) from 1859 to date.
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