British Library Journal (volume 24, number 2, autumn 1998)

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The book cover designs of John Leighton, F.S.A.
(1998-11)
King, Edmund M. B.
THE chief aim of this article is to identify and describe the signed cover designs by John Leighton on books in the British Library. What follows is a summary of work in progress. This reveals the enormous creativity and versatility of Leighton's cover designs, of which over four hundred have been traced to date. Leighton worked with many publishers, all of whom had London offices, or were based exclusively in the capital. Between 1845 and 1902, he was employed by nearly seventy. Of this number, he provided three designs or less for forty publishers, and it is likely that his skill as a designer made many different publishers or printers keen to commission his services.
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'Rise and shine!': the birth of the glossy magazine
(1998-11)
Reed, David
BOTH as a field of study and as a reflective resource for the investigation of other topics, popular magazines are a sorely neglected medium. Few librarians want to keep them and an even smaller number of academics use them. Students of print culture oscillate in their affiliations between the poles of the distinctly ephemeral, the daily newspaper, and the overwhelmingly permanent, the bound book. One is touched by the glamour of power, the other is held in the thrall of time. Magazines fall between the two stools. Some that have dallied with politics - Punch, The Economist, Picture Post - are granted a position at the academic lunch table. The rest are consigned to oblivion. Such attitudes are reflected in scholastic neglect. Although popular culture now basks in the glow of student enthusiasm at a multitude of educational institutions, there seems precious little consideration of the nature of the study that will lead to a more appropriate approach to serial publications. Yet Cynthia White, in her still unsurpassed Women's Magazines 1693-1967, demonstrated how such studies could inform a broader field a generation ago.
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The Edwards of Halifax Bindery
(1998-11)
Marks, P. J. M.
THE story of the Edwards family of Halifax is the stuff of a Victorian three volume novel. William Edwards (baptized in 1722, died in 1808), a provincial publisher and bookseller, built up a firm which became influential in the book trade in England and abroad. William (1753-86), his first son, was a ne'er do well. His cloth manufacturer's business was purchased for him by his father, who also had to pick up the pieces when it failed by bailing young William out of debtors' prison. Four other sons were partners in the bookselling business but were also known for their individual accomplishments.The second son, James (1756-1816), described as an 'EXOTIC [sic] bookseller', was also a publisher, gentleman spy, and bibliophile; even his coffin was made from the empty bookshelves of his library. James and his brother John opened a London bookshop in Pall Mall in 1784 which continued until 1799. John (1758-91) was also an artist of some accomplishment (and has attracted posthumous attention for the repeated but erroneous reference to his having been guillotined in the Terror). Thomas(1762-1834) dutifully stayed at home and ran the Halifax shop selling books and patent medicines (including the entertainingly named True Daffy's Elixir, Dr Walker's Jesuit Drops, and Dr Baliman's Golden Spirit of Scurvy Grass!). He also supervised trips to bind the libraries of local worthies, and was alleged to have been a local political activist. The youngest son, Richard Edwards (1768-1827), was a patron and publisher of William Blake and owned his own bookshop in New Bond Street from 1791 to 1798.
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The Tyson Collection
(1998-11)
Neighbour, O. W.
IN 1961 an article appeared in a musical journal proving that two piano trios usually accepted without question as Haydn's were in fact by Ignaz Pleyel. The author was Alan Tyson, who for the next thirty years was to play a leading role in scholarly research into music of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Beyond learning the viola and to a lesser extent the piano he had not studied music. At Rugby he had been torn between Classics and science, but it was decided that he should do Classics. So Classics he did, perhaps with mixed feelings but with conspicuous success. After graduating at Oxford in 1951 with a double first he became a fellow of All Souls the following year.
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French newspapers and ephemera from the 1848 revolution
(1998-11)
Daniels, Morna
THE British Library has exceptionally fine holdings relating to the French Revolution of 1789. The three collections purchased from or on the recommendation of John Wilson Croker comprise 48,579 pieces and have been briefly listed with some indication of subject, but not all have been catalogued. The 'R' set, the last to be purchased in 1856, includes a few items from the revolution of 1830. In 1898 Francois Chevremont, Marat's biographer, presented seventy volumes of works by or about Marat.
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Recent acquisitions: a Shahnama miniature of the fourteenth century
(1998-11)
Titley, Norah M.
THE Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library has recently acquired an illustrated Shahnama (Book of Kings) (Or.14403) from Transoxiana dating from circa 1600.
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The Codex Alexandrinus and the Alexandrian Greek Types
(1998-11)
Bowman, J. H.
THE Codex Alexandrinus is one of the three great Greek manuscripts of the Bible, and was probably written during the first half of the fifth century. Apart from some minor imperfections where damage or loss has occurred, it contains the complete text of the Greek Bible, including the Apocrypha, and the New Testament concludes with the two extra-canonical works, the First and Second Epistles of Clement to the Corinthians. In 1621 it was given to Sir Thomas Roe, the English ambassador at Constantinople, by the Greek Patriarch, Cyril Lucar, in return for Roe's support against the claims of the Latin church, and it was intended for King James I. Its name derives from the fact that Lucar had previously been Patriarch of Alexandria; he had taken the manuscript with him on being translated to Constantinople.^ King James died in 1625, while the manuscript was still at Constantinople, and it was not until 1627 that it finally reached England, by which time Charles I was on the throne. It was then deposited in the Royal Library. The whole collection was transferred to the British Museum by George II on 6 August 1757, and the Codex is consequently now one of the treasures of the British Library.
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British Library Journal (volume 24, number 2, autumn 1998)

British Library Journal (volume 24, number 2, autumn 1998)

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