Manuscripts and documents relating to Bibliotheca Phillippica, 1794-1886 (bulk, 1800-1864) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, invoices and other items from auctioneers, booksellers and printers, including John Lowe, Obadiah Rich, Thomas Thorpe and Bernard Quaritch. Thirty catalogs of various portions of the collection, mainly in manuscript, created between 1816 and 1872. This collection includes manuscript catalogs of the libraries of Arthur Capel (Earl of Essex), Bishop Samuel Butler and Leander van Ess. Items from the auctioneers Payne and Foss concern their purchase for Phillipps of material from the Richard Heber sale of 1833 and the Benjamin Bright sale of 1844-1845. There is also miscellaneous correspondence, including letters from Brasenose College (Oxford) and the Bodleian Library about gifts from Phillipps, as well as several letters by him, including copies of letters for 1854-1855 madeby the Wedgwood Patent Manifold Writer. Materials concerning Phillipps' Continental tours include, but are not limited to, visas, his notes on Continental libraries, and letters from the librarian of Lille to the librarian of Cambrai regarding Phillipps' use of their collections