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The Reverend Mr. James Davenport's confession & retractations
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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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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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