Research notes of A. W. Pollard, R. B. McKerrow, and others
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Includes papers on printers’ devices; Robert Johnson, grocer and alderman (d 1626); pater noster and Ave Maria illustrations; printer’s waste from Plinii Sec. Epistol. (1518); and fragments of late 14th/early 15th century English manuscripts used in bookbindings. One of the fragments is from Medi...
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, ...
Contains letters, sent with the authority of the Trustees of the British Museum, to chapter libraries and individuals attempting to trace English incunabula of which the British Museum did not hold a copy. Lists of such works and their owners are also included.
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...