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The Ayrton Papers: music in London, 1786-1858
RECENTLY acquired papers of William Ayrton (1777-1858), musician and critic, sometime Director of the Italian opera at the King's Theatre, and editor of the Harmonicon, proved to be the residue of the collection of Ayrton's correspondence and papers presented by Miss Phyllis Ayrton, his great-granddaughter, in 1964. The new collection...Willetts, Pamela
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Bookbinding practices of the Hering family, 1794-1844
THE English poet and essayist Robert Southey, describing, in the guise of a Spaniard, the manners and morals of his countrymen, noted in 1807, that 'there is, perhaps, no country in which the passion for collecting rarities is so prevalent as in England.' This passion was turned by large numbers...Marks, Judith Goldstein
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Four Strasburg incunables incorrectly assigned to Anton Koberger of Nuremberg
Four incunables, undated and anonymous as to place and printer, have for many generations been assigned to the Nuremberg press of Anton Koberger, and have in fact been classed as his very earliest productions. 1. Johannes Nider, Manuale confessorum. fol.: a-e10 f8, 58 leaves. Hain, *11834; Goff, N-178; Proctor, 1961;...Needham, Paul
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions from the Broxbourne Library
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: manuscript acquisitions, 1975
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The Department of Manuscripts' George Eliot Holdings
'MR. LEWES had set his mind on their going after our death to the British Museum', wrote George Eliot of the manuscripts of her works in a letter to William Blackwood. In G. H. Lewes's lifetime the autograph manuscripts of her works had been inscribed and presented by her to...Waley, Daniel
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1978
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Vignettes in early nineteenth-century London editions of Mozart's operas
ON 21 June 1737 the royal assent was given to a measure entitled: An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act, made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants,...King, Alec Hyatt
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Joaquin Ibarra, 1725-1785: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
THREE printers in eighteenth-century Spain are commonly regarded as the leaders of the revival in printing standards in that country. Of the three, Joaquin Ibarra, Benito Monfort, and Antonio de Sancha, it is Ibarra who is generally considered to be pre-eminent.Whitehead, H. G.
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Woodcroft's heritage: the collections at the Science Reference Library
ANY considerable library has a character all its own, a character usually reflecting the disproportionate influence of a few outstanding men who have shaped its development. The Science Reference Library, which celebrated its 125th anniversary on 5 March 1980, is no exception for, primus inter pares, it is the library...Hall, R. M. S.
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A hitherto unrecognized Cavalier dramatist: James Compton, Third Earl of Northampton
ON 8 March 1978 there was offered for sale at Christie's, as lot 293, a large collection originating from Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire of plays and other writings in manuscript that had largely been lost sight of since Thomas Percy, the literary historian and editor of the Reliques of Ancient...Kelliher, Hilton
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Reflections on librarianship: observations arising from examination of the Garrick Collection of old plays in the British Library
IN April 1980 it will be two hundred years since David Garrick's Collection of Old Plays was transferred from his house in the Adelphi to the British Museum. On a hand cart, so it is said, the volumes in their special binding, with the initials DG entwined on the spines,...Anderson, Dorothy
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The early catalogues of the Cottonian Library
IN spite of the importance of the Cottonian library for a wide range of literary and historical studies we know very little about its organization and development in the first century of its existence. While its unique value was widely recognized long before the death of its founder, Sir Robert...Tite, Colin G. C.
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Department of Printed Books: Halthasar Bekker: some recent additions
In the 1978 Spring issue of this journal Dr. Hans Henning recalled that executions for witchcraft continued in Germany and Switzerland until 1782. If they came to an end then, and well before that date in England and some other countries, this is due in no small measure to Balthasar...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Innocence and experience in the poetry of Andrew Marvell
ANDREW MARVELL is the most enigmatic of English writers. Aubrey tells us that he was merry and cherry-cheeked, but that he would not drink in company, keeping, nevertheless, some bottles of wine in his lodgings 'to refresh his spirits and exalt his muse'. Nearly all the poems on which his...Lord, George De F.
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Joseph Timothy Haydn, of Dictionary of Dates fame: 'a long and laborious life, writing chiefly for the publishers'
'Is it for this', Robert Hurton's melancholy scholar asks, 'we rise so early all the year long, leaping (as he saith) out of our beds, when we hear the bell ring, as if we heard a thunderclap? If this be all the respect, reward, and honour we shall have ....Myers, Robin
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.Chrastek, D. B.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: manuscript acquisitions 1974
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Reconstruction of a Liège psalter-hours
IN the sad history of crimes against books, British Library Add. MS. 28784 must be placed high on the list of scrapbooks headed by the Carmelite Missal, Add. MSS. 29704-29705. When acquired by the British Museum in 1871 Add. MS. 28784 was composed of a complete late fifteenth-century book of...Oliver, Judith
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Gladstone and Panizzi
THERE were several strands in Gladstone's relation with Panizzi, whom he came to call this very true, trusty, hearty friend. Panizzi made his English debut in the 1820s in Liverpool, where John Gladstone was a merchant prince, and he made it under the patronage of William Ewart the future Prime...Foot, M. R. D.