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The Davenport Court of Inquiry
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Four volumes of scrapbooks. Two volumes are labeled: Miscellaneous sketches. 1. 1847- 1893; 2, 1870-1899. These contain numerous tracings, rubbings, notes and sketches of bindings related to his bookbinding research. Other materials include original artwork by Davenport and his family, including many portraits of family members, landscape and topographical sketches by Davenport, with many depicting French and Italian locations, sketches of his BM collegues, topographical prints and drawings, cards and invitations, designs for jewellery and pottery, sketches of royal regalia, a large number of pen and ink sketches by C.P. Colnaghi "mostly done at the British Museum", a number of sketches by Theo Marzials, sketches and drawings by artist Richard Caton Woodville, other drawings by Wilfrid Lawson and Alfred Ward, two original manuscript poems by Theo Marzials and illustrated by Richard Caton Woodville, some "music played by Theo Marzials in 1882 and automatically written down as played by an electric mechanism" and a design made for Lady Randolph Churchill's Anglo-Saxon Review. The other two unlabeled volumes are dedicated to different examples of illustrative reproductions, including lithographs, engravings, etchings, etc., which also include some examples of bindings, a small number lithographed by Davenport himself, others by Griggs of Chicago. Also contains three Japanese prints by Kunigoshi, Kunisada and another given to Davenport by the Japanese Commissioner at the St. Louis World Fair.
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Manuscripts
An account book of William Davenport & Co. relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool, Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, Antigua, and Kingston, Jamaica. A huge variety of different articles shipped out on these voyages are recorded, among them clothing, fabrics, beads, foodstuffs, tools, cutlery, wine, guns and gunpowder. These items presumably were intended for sale both in Africa and the West Indies. Also listed are various sales of slaves in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The volume is written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again (tête-bêche style) and contains entries written in several hands; with original paper labels titled in manuscript pasted to the center of each cover. Pages 1-11, 24-50, 52-77 record accounts for the Hector, Liverpool, Hero and Swift (with pages 12-23 sometime excised and p. 51 omitted); then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume, the remaining 93 pages record accounts for the Ann and cutter Bee, with 10 blank pages between the two sections.
mssHM 82854