Alan Gradon Thomas's notes on medieval manuscripts
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Includes papers relating to Peter Lombard’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles, Les Pelerinages de Terre Sainte (Phillipps Ms. 6664), the Penwortham Breviary, and breviaries and books of hours in general.
Alan Gradon Thomas's Antiquarian Booksellers' Association papers
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Includes ABA minutes, newsletters, and correspondence, and papers relating to the organisation of book fairs and events, and lost and stolen items reported by members. Thomas served as ABA president for 1958/9.
Pottesman (1904-1978) was an antiquarian bookseller whom Alan Thomas admired and whose obituaries he wrote. Thomas appears to have acquired some of Pottesman’s papers. Contains some of Pottesman’s own notes and notebooks, some cash books from Pottesman's business, and correspondence and other pa...
Historical papers relating to H. G. Commin's bookshop
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Papers relating to Commin’s bookshop before Alan Thomas’s ownership. Includes correspondence with customers, profit and loss accounts for the final four years of trading before Thomas’s acquisition of the business, and an itemised valuation of the Commin’s stock in 1934 carried out by E. Joseph ...