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The Curzon Collection
Through the generosity of Dr Peter Curzon and Mr Fritz Curzon the British Library has recently acquired an extensive collection of annotated scores, notebooks, and other papers of the late Sir Clifford Curzon. The working scores amount to some 300 items. Nearly all are printed editions, but there are a...Neighbour, O. W.
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Julian Marshall and the British Museum: music collecting in the later nineteenth century
In the second volume of Sir George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians which appeared in 1880, there is a descriptive list of private music libraries in the British Isles. First, understandably enough, is the Royal Music Library at Buckingham Palace; the next two libraries listed are those of Sir...Searle, Arthur
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Obiya Ihei, a Japanese provincial publisher
Commercial publishing came of age in Japan during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). Both at the beginning and at the end of this period there was a vogue for experimenting with movable type, but from the middle of the seventeenth century the burgeoning publishing industry relied almost exclusively on wood-block printing,...Kornicki, P. F.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: selected acquisitions, mainly from the period 1979-1985 Map Library
A PREVIOUS article (British Library Journal, v (1979), pp. 181-97) provided partial coverage for the period 1968-78, with the promise of a further instalment to include those items which were unavoidably omitted. This article completes the listing for the earlier period, but can give only a partial account of acquisitions...Campbell, Tony
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The library of the Royal Philharmonic Society
During the period from 1790 to the early 1830s, quite a number of organizations came into being in London to provide public musical entertainment of various kinds. The only one of them still active today is the Philharmonic Society, which was established in 1813 and received the title 'Royal' exactly...King, Alec Hyatt
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Holywell House: a Gothic villa at St Albans
HOLYWELL HOUSE, when the Dowager Lady Spencer first came to live there in November 1783, was a small and rather run-down country house on the southern edge of St Albans: one of many properties inherited by John Spencer of Althorp at the death of his redoubtable and fabulously wealthy grandmother,...Pattie, T. S.
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Bartolommeo Sanvito and an antique motif
A curious motif appears at the foot of the frontispiece of the celebrated copy of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, written and probably illuminated by Bartolommeo Sanvito, in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts, MS. Royal 14.C.III, fol. 2). This consists of a group of three putti, the...Evans, M. L.
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An anonymous guidebook to Rome, 1677
FOR well over a century (perhaps for two centuries) the British Museum has owned a book of 192 pages in an unusually small format, 24mo, which has remained hidden and unnoticed in the general catalogue under the unobtrusive heading 'S., P. de''. The title is Nuouo metodo per acquistare brieuemente...Rhodes, D. E.
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The development of the collections of the Department of Printed Books, 1846-1875
In June 1872 a special Sub-committee of the Trustees of the British Museum considered a report prepared by W. B. Rye, the Keeper of Printed Books, on the acquisitions system of his department. They expressed great satisfaction with it, but asked that a further report should be produced showing what...Harris, P. R.
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The use of William Caxton's type 3 by John Lettou and William de Machlinia in the printing of their Yearbook 35 Henry VI, c.1481-1482
WILLIAM CAXTON'S Type 3, which was the second type used by him when setting up his business in Westminster in 1476, was a fresh casting of a sharply cut, well-aligned Gothic by Johan Veldener, a typographer then active in the Low Countries. It measures 135 mm over twenty lines. The...Partridge, W. J.