Contains correspondence and subject files, including funding requests, on issues of interest to the CLR. Frank Francis acted as a consultant on foreign library developments to the CLR from 1968.
Contains papers relating to requests for funding for research projects. Papers relating to research projects and applications for funding that do not have a specific subject file may be found in the General correspondence files, Add MS 89010/11/4-6.
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...
Contains papers concerning the location of incunabula, lists of incunabula in private and institutional custody, and papers relating to the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. The contents of Add MS 89018/14-16 are the result of A. W. Pollard's appeal, published in a number of publications in 1912, ...
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...