Manuscripts

English book trade collection

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Description: Collection primarily contains correspondence between English authors and publishers regarding various publications.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1721-1842.
Call number: mssEBT
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of February 2024.
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[Collection of prospectuses for early 19th century English books]

Rare Books

Contains covers and/or title pages, some with title vignettes, and specimen pages for 7 English publications dating from 1807 to 1831. The prospectuses/dummies are bound together in marbled-paper boards with red leather spine and corners. Publishers' whose work is represented include: John Sharpe, Piccadilly; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Sample illustrations are included with some of the specimen pages.

436029

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Rickman-Southey collection

Manuscripts

A collection of 1,278 items from 1798 to 1839, it consists of the correspondence between John Rickman and Robert Southey during their 41-year friendship. Box 16 also contains a few letters by other authors including four by James Burney, English Naval officer, and two by George Dyer, English classicist, poet and editor.

mssRS

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Freeman, Lewis R. "Chapter XXI: Trade and Transportation": typed book chapter

Manuscripts

The collection focuses on Freeman's travel writings from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and includes unpublished book and article manuscripts, published articles in printed journals, and correspondence with various agents and publishers regarding Freeman's writing submissions. The collection also includes some personal manuscripts, photographs, and diaries.

mssFreeman papers

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Freeman, Lewis R. "Chapter XV: Railways and Foreign Trade": typed book chapter

Manuscripts

mssFreeman papers

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Incunabula (English Collections)

Manuscripts

These are likely George Cole's personal notes about the Huntington collections, comprised of lists of a variety of holdings of the library, and acquisitions made by the Huntington between 1915 and 1924. It includes Cole's notes regarding variations within different printings of various texts (for example, differences in two copies of Bacon's "Wisdom of the Ancients" both from the same year, with different typeset), as well as listings of famous first editions, incunabula, Shakespeare quartos, and historical papers in the Huntington collection; lists of holdings in other libraries; lists of items sent to galleries, exhibits, or for exchange or sale; physical descriptions and comparisons of texts; biographical histories of certain authors; and lists of things not in the Huntington's collection. Additionally, it also includes some material on bibliography, and a cataloging guide from 1920 of HEHL cataloging practice. Most of the material is undated.

HIA 30.1

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Diary: Book 128, Book of the Century

Manuscripts

The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera of Hilary Mantel. Manuscripts include short stories, interviews, lectures, scripts, articles and reviews, as well as various drafts and notes for Mantel's novels. The collection contains business letters and emails from publishers, agents, other authors, newspapers and magazines, as well as personal letters and emails from family, friends and personal fan letters. Ephemera includes photographs, audio materials and printed material, including some research material for her novels.

MN 4845

English book trade collection

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[Collection of prospectuses for early 19th century English books]

Rickman-Southey collection

Freeman, Lewis R. "Chapter XXI: Trade and Transportation": typed book chapter

Freeman, Lewis R. "Chapter XV: Railways and Foreign Trade": typed book chapter

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Diary: Book 128, Book of the Century