Contains letters received by A. F. Johnson, and Victor Scholderer; ‘Museum Musings’, verse by H. I. Bell, typewritten, corrected; H. R. Plomer’s texts of papers ‘The authorship of “A theatre of voluptuous worldlings”’, ‘The foreign book trade of the 18th century and the men engaged in it’, ‘A “C...
Papers relating to the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
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Contains correspondence and papers relating to the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a project to create a union catalogue of incunabula. The chief correspondent is Frank Francis, Hon. Sec. of the Bibliographical Society and successively Assistant, Secretary, Keeper of the Department of Printed Boo...
Contains papers on Victorian printing, the 300th anniversary of the First Folio of Shakespeare (by Max Förster), Erasmus' letters, Elizabeth Baker and her diary, a list of early English books, the portraits of Shakespeare (by Lionel Cust), and Austrian monastic libraries.
Contains lists of material for a British Museum exhibition of French books and famous printed books; an offprint of an article by Léopold Delisle; a Times supplement commemorating the 500th anniversary of the invention of movable type; an article by Carl Wehmer, on the Mainz proof sheets of the 1...
Two first draft typescripts labelled ‘Cirencester – first draft’, ca. 210pp each, both with similar extensive autograph revisions. Also includes two typed letters in German from 'Mother' and two newspapers.