British Library Journal (volume 12, number 2, autumn 1986)
British Library Journal (volume 12, number 2, autumn 1986)
British Library Journal (volume 12, number 2, autumn 1986)
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Item type:Journal article, The Cranbrook papers: stray letters from a politician's archive(1986-11)Smith, Robert A. H.THE main body of the papers of the Conservative statesman Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (b. 1814, d. 1906), were deposited by the 4th Earl in the Suffolk Record Office at Ipswich (Ref. HA 43; NRA report 1182); these papers were drawn upon by his son A. E. Gathorne-Hardy in his biography of Cranbrook, and remain a valuable source for historians. Extracts from Cranbrook's long series of diaries-twenty-one volumes in all-have recently been pubhshed. One small previously unrecorded cache of Cranbrook material, however, was not among the papers deposited at Ipswich: a group of letters offered at the Lawrence Fine Art of Crewkerne sale of 28 October 1982 (lot 326), acquired by the British Library, and now Add. MS. 62537.2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, John Bagford, bookseller and antiquary(1986-11)Gatch, Milton McC.JOHN BAGFORD was born in London, lived his sixty-five or sixty-six years there, and was buried in the city in May 1716. From at least 1686 until his death, he was at the centre of the London book trade, involved both in the dispersal of existing collections and the formation of a number of the great libraries. Among those he helped to build were three that became the backbones of two great public collections: the libraries of Robert Harley and Hans Sloane which, together with the collection of Sir Robert Cotton, became the core of the British Museum, and John Moore's library, which King George I bought in 1714 and presented to the University Library in Cambridge. At least two nineteenth century bibliophile historians believed that Bagford's own collections, known chiefly for their wealth of title-pages from early printed books, were created by ripping these pages from sound copies of the books to which they belonged; they heaped opprobrium on him as a 'wicked old Biblioclast' and 'the most hungry and rapacious' of book and print collectors. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Būstān of Sa’dī: an illustrated Persian manuscript dated 850/1446(1986-11)5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Acquisitions in the Department of Printed Books, 1935-50, and the effects of the war(1986-11)Harris, P. R.THE great period of expansion in the Department of Printed Books which occurred in the third quarter of the nineteenth century has been described in an earlier article (British Library Journal, x (1984), pp. 114-46). After 1886/7 the purchase grant was cut from the former figure of £10,000 p.a., and it is generally accepted that the intake to the library suffered from that point onwards. In 1935/6 the figure was almost as much as it had been before 1887-it was £9,500. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: selected acquisitions, mainly from the period 1979-1985 Map Library(1986-11)Campbell, TonyA 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 over the past six years. These will be brought up to date in a later issue. The items selected are of particular bibliographical interest or rarity.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Fragment of an unpublished essay on printing by William Camden(1986-11)Dunn, R. D.THE known facts concerning the origins of printing from movable type in western Europe have been ably gathered and assessed by recent scholars and there is a large measure of agreement among them, but the information available to William Camden in the sixteenth century is interesting both where it agrees and where it disagrees. It would be wrong to contend that this fragment, by itself, is sufficient grounds to modify our data. On several points his information is demonstrably inaccurate or simply ambiguous, and since he never completed the essay it cannot be said to represent his final thoughts. Yet while Camden was no bibliographer in the sense that term has come to mean today, his reputation as a scholar and the degree of accuracy in his published works make it worth considering his observations, however brief or incomplete. My object here is to publish his remarks along with annotation to qualify or elucidate points of difficulty. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Holywell House: a Gothic villa at St Albans(1986-11)Pattie, T. S.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, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. In 1746 it passed to his son, who became the 1st Earl Spencer, and although in the latter's lifetime it was regarded by the family as no more than a convenient staging-post on the road to Northamptonshire at his death in 1783 his widow, Georgiana, fixed upon it as her dower house. The Spencers' three great houses, Althorp, Wimbledon Park, and Spencer House in St James's, now belonged to her son and daughter-in-law, and she was in anycase unwilling to settle anywhere that would recall memories of her own happy married life.2