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1938Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
1939rif. 965H38London: The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd. 1939 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A vanishingly scarce first edition currently the only known copy available this pioneering 1939 work by Diana and Purcell Weaver champions natural wholesome eating through recipes dietetics and reflections on food health and agriculture. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume is a vanishingly scarce first edition.Embracing the ethos "Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food" Diana and Purcell Weaver advocate for the use of wholesome natural ingredients in everyday cooking grounded in the belief that "the beginning of all wisdom lies in the kitchen."This work is divided into three parts: "Foods and Recipes" delves into the origins varieties and preparation methods of a wide variety of foods followed by serving suggestions and recipes. "The Science of Eating" examines modern dietics suggesting menus and meals with comprehensive dietetic tables by Edmond Szekely. "Soil Foods and Man" explores and evaluates diet and agriculture raw food diets and providing a table of natural foods. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bookplate from previous owner's to front free endpaper from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique". dust wrapper smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small closed tear and chip to extremities. Slight soiling to paper wrapper. The odd spot and slight handling mark to paper. Tape reinforcing the head of spine and upper joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to fore edge. Very Good Indeed The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd. hardcover
1761rif. 7777London: Published by R. H. Laurie; 53 Fleet Street and Bowles & Carver 1761. Mezzotint. New state ii/ii with the publication line altered. Inscription reads as follows: " J. Reynolds pinx.Cha Corbutt fecit./ Strive not TRAGEDY nor COMEDY to Engross a GARRICK who to your NOBLEST CHARACTER does EQUAL HONOUR./ Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique./ Published by R.H.LAURIE; 53 Fleet Street and BOWLES & CARVER St. Pauls Church Yard London Price 6s.". In good condition apart from a small section of paper loss in the upper margin not extending into the image and two small skillfully mended tears on the bottom margin. Images size: 13 1/8 x 16 inches. One of the most famous portraits of the actor David Garrick by Sir Joshua Reynolds. David Garrick 1717-1779 was perhaps the most influential actor in the English theater. He successfully took on all aspects of theatrical production including actor manager playwright publicist and theatre advocate. He displayed an amazing range by convincingly playing parts in every genre from comedy to tragedy history to farce. From 1747 until his retirement in 1776 he was the manager of Drury Lane where he initiated many improvements: he introduced concealed stage lighting removed spectators from the stage and cultivated a naturalistic style of acting. Garrick was acutely conscious of the value of pictures as advertisements. He sat for every painter of note many of whom are now little more than names. He was painted in oils and in watercolours drawn in pencil and in pastels modelled in wax and in terracotta; his likeness even appeared on medals Wedgewood china and playing-cards. This portrait by his friend Reynolds demonstrates in a mildly humorous way the actor's talents and character; posed between Tragedy and Comedy Garrick is depicted the master of both. Garrick's broad smile and Tragedy's melodramatic stance note the dagger at her waist favor Comedy. Reynolds' painting was a huge public success and inspired many prints and paintings pirated prints of the image even made their way to the streets of Paris. The popularity of this image is a testimony to Garrick's fame and to Reynolds' talent. University of Florida website Penny An interesting derivative of this scene is Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy a beautiful stipple engraving based on a painting by Romney. Penny Reynolds 42; Chaloner Smith British Mezzotinto Portraits 31 this state not recorded; Russell English Mezzotint Portraits and their States 31 this state not recorded; Hamilton Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Renolds p.29; Lennox-Boyd Theatre: the Age of Garrick p.108; O'Donoghue Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. in the British Museum 52. Published by R. H. Laurie; 53 Fleet Street, and Bowles & Carver unknown books
2008rif. Atlantic-97804154277912008. Hardcover. New. hardcover
2008rif. Atlantic-97804154277912008. Hardcover. New. hardcover
rif. 9781634632669NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
rif. 9781631177286NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
rif. 6464913Clarendon Press . Hardback. New. pp. 460 Clarendon Press hardcover
1915Pages 145-180 + xvi ads. Features: Home of Mr. Clayton S. Cooper, Fieldston, NY; Maytime Landscape; The Small House of To-Day - with photos of the homes of Mr. S.C. Jackson, Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. F.A. Camp, of Fieldston, NY, Mr. Samuel C. Hyer, of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. J.B. Gembriling of Cynwyd, PA, Mrs. George W. Berrian of Glen Ridge, NJ, Mr. William B. Boggs, of Douglaston Park, NY, Miss M. Vaughn of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. H.S. Worden of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. W.H. Phillips of Beechhurst, Long Island, Mr. Irving Childs of Beechhurst, Long Island, Mr. Hardy of Larchmont Gardens, NY, and Mr. W.J. Reed of Scarsdale, NY; Cosmos (flowers); Native Beauty - photo-illustrated landscaping article; A House with a History - photo-illustrated article on the home of mr. Roland C. Lincoln, near Manchester, MA; The Home Built for Charles A. Purcell, Esq., at River Forest, IL; Centerfold photo-spread of five Small Houses of Attractive Design; Vases From Old Jars - how to do it using oil and a red hot bar of steel!; The English Bulldog; Samplers - nice four-page photo-illustrated article; American Pewter; A Stencilled Bedroom Set; Wicker Bird-Cages; Making Things Cheerful in the Home; One-page illustrated ad for the Western Electric built-in (stationary) vacuum cleaner; The Humble Hamper; Great one-page photo-illustrated ad for W. & J. Sloane, featuring their "Dryad" Cane Furniture; Color back cover ad for 1847 Rogers Bros. cutlery (silver plate); and more. Average wear and external soiling. Modest moisture exposure to bottom and fore-edges of covers and pages. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
1948rif. 31684Ashingdon: The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd 1948. Hardcover. Stated Third Edition Revised: the earliest entirely complete edition with all additions revisions and separate introductions. 5.5 x 8.5in. 847pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Illustrated endpapers. Folding plate. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows one corner lightly bumped a hint of shelf rubbing at the extremities otherwise the binding remains strong and tight the text clean and unmarked and the boards bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows a closed tear and chip of the front panel some marginal losses from the extremities price-clipped otherwise remains bright and distinct. As pictured. The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd hardcover
rif. 200412London: J.J. Waddington 1902. 4to wrappers Very good. Unpaginated illus. ports. The wraps are chipped about the edges and head heel and 2 CM mid of spine yet the copy is quite bright and tight. Covers yapped. Of the Purcell Operatic Society under the musical direction of Martin Shaw; with plates of costumes one tipped-in by stage director Gordon Craig and portraits of Handel and Purcell. J.J. Waddington Paperback
2006rif. CBS-9781846282676Sp Springer 2006. New. Sp Springer unknown
2006rif. CBS-9781846282676Sp Springer 2006. New. Sp Springer unknown
1979rif. 2989Richard Goodall; Fields Press Limited; Manchester; 1979. 1979 "Official Programme Portland Hotel Manchester 27-29 July 1979". Front cover illustration by Ralph Steadman. Boldly SIGNED by Steadman in red ink with characteristic splatter on the front cover. Stapled wraps 12 x 8 1/4 inches unpaginated 16 pp. numerous b/w photo illustrations high quality glossy paper. Very good. Rare. Organized by Richard Goodall Brian Stibal and Sarah Purcell. Stibal was the editor of Talkin' Bob Zimmerman Blues 1974-1976 which became Zimmerman Blues magazine 1977-1978 which became Changin'. "As Bob Dylan appreciators from at least two continents descend upon Manchester this weekend the question foremost in the minds of casual observers will be: Why conducts sic a convention dealing with Bob Dylan After all any convention is an enormous undertaking particularly if it is the first of its kind as is DYLAN REVISITED '79." Among the participants and performers: David Oxtoby Bob Johnston Christopher Ricks Street Level Stuart Mitchell Julie Ward Mary Asquith. "Selected References 1962-1978" 3 pp. compiled by Terry Wyke. 3214011. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Richard Goodall; Fields Press Limited; Manchester; (1979). paperback
rif. Z1-U-001-02696Chivers Large print Chivers Windsor Paragon & C. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C unknown
1715rif. 4866aLondon: J Morphew. G: in good condition. Slight foxing. Careful spine repair on original leather binding. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1715. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover with ribbed spine. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xiv 198pp. . J Morphew hardcover
1957rif. PURCELLV001119Printed for private circulation at the Broadwater Press Welwyn Garden City. 1957. First edition. Octavo. pp vi 66. A satirical parody of T.S. Eliot by a Cambridge Sinologist. His pseudonym is an anagram and near homophone of ''my rebuttal''. Apparently printed in about 300 copies. Almost instant notoriety led to trade editions shortly after.Loosely inserted are three Autograph Letters Signed by Victor Purcell and on his headed writing paper dated 7 August 1957 20 March 1958 and 21 May 1958 the first to Miss Newland the others to Miss Newland Smith. The recipient was employed as a reader at the Broadwater Press and from the contents of the first letter was largely responsible for seeing the book through to production. The second letter mentions having received a letter to Myra from Sir Isaiah Berlin and the printing in the USA of an edition of 5000 copies. For the American edition Purcell admits to altering a certain unfortunate racial epithet which appears twice in the poem. In the last letter he talks of the recent appearance of the British trade edition and the expected reaction in the press and on TV. He also talks of having 'recently written and fantasy in dramatic form entitled ''Toynbee in Elysium''. The characters in order of appearance are Thucydides Gibbon Rhadamanthus Sellars the author of 1984 and So What! Spengler Toynbee Madame Blavatsky who claims that Toynbee is her reincarnation Chu Hsi of the Sung dynasty and Blaise Pascal. I have not yet decided how to bring it out.' In the event the book was issued in 1959. Also loosely inserted: a greetings card inscribed ''from Victor Purcell and Myra Buttle''; a poem ''Ode on a Chinese Vase - A Pastiche by Victor Purcell'' printed on a single sheet and inscribed ''To Miss M. Newland Smith with best wishes from Victor Purcell May 1959''; a sheet of typed extracts from reviews in the American press.Inserts: very good indeed. Book: free endpapers tanned; very good; not issued in dustwrapper. Printed for private circulation at the Broadwater Press, Welwyn Garden City. unknown
2019rif. Adhya-9780198743644OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019. HB. New. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
2019rif. Adhya-9780198743644OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019. HB. New. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
2012rif. Manohar-9780415523127Routledge 2012. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2012rif. Manohar-9780415523127Routledge 2012. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
1761rif. 7777London: Published by R. H. Laurie; 53 Fleet Street and Bowles & Carver 1761. Mezzotint. New state ii/ii with the publication line altered. Inscription reads as follows: " J. Reynolds pinx.Cha Corbutt fecit./ Strive not TRAGEDY nor COMEDY to Engross a GARRICK who to your NOBLEST CHARACTER does EQUAL HONOUR./ Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique./ Published by R.H.LAURIE; 53 Fleet Street and BOWLES & CARVER St. Pauls Church Yard London Price 6s.". In good condition apart from a small section of paper loss in the upper margin not extending into the image and two small skillfully mended tears on the bottom margin. Images size: 13 1/8 x 16 inches. One of the most famous portraits of the actor David Garrick by Sir Joshua Reynolds. David Garrick 1717-1779 was perhaps the most influential actor in the English theater. He successfully took on all aspects of theatrical production including actor manager playwright publicist and theatre advocate. He displayed an amazing range by convincingly playing parts in every genre from comedy to tragedy history to farce. From 1747 until his retirement in 1776 he was the manager of Drury Lane where he initiated many improvements: he introduced concealed stage lighting removed spectators from the stage and cultivated a naturalistic style of acting. Garrick was acutely conscious of the value of pictures as advertisements. He sat for every painter of note many of whom are now little more than names. He was painted in oils and in watercolours drawn in pencil and in pastels modelled in wax and in terracotta; his likeness even appeared on medals Wedgewood china and playing-cards. This portrait by his friend Reynolds demonstrates in a mildly humorous way the actor's talents and character; posed between Tragedy and Comedy Garrick is depicted the master of both. Garrick's broad smile and Tragedy's melodramatic stance note the dagger at her waist favor Comedy. Reynolds' painting was a huge public success and inspired many prints and paintings pirated prints of the image even made their way to the streets of Paris. The popularity of this image is a testimony to Garrick's fame and to Reynolds' talent. University of Florida website Penny An interesting derivative of this scene is Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy a beautiful stipple engraving based on a painting by Romney. Penny Reynolds 42; Chaloner Smith British Mezzotinto Portraits 31 this state not recorded; Russell English Mezzotint Portraits and their States 31 this state not recorded; Hamilton Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Renolds p.29; Lennox-Boyd Theatre: the Age of Garrick p.108; O'Donoghue Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. in the British Museum 52. Published by R. H. Laurie; 53 Fleet Street, and Bowles & Carver unknown
1957rif. 276957Welwyn Garden City Herts: The Broadwater Press Limited 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition preceding the Sagamore trade edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt without dustwrapper as issued. The gilt lettering is a bit faded a faint dampstain on the boards a very good copy. Complimentary slip from Myra Buttle laid in. A satire of T.S. Eliot printed for private circulation. Laid in is a one page Autograph Letter Signed to Buttle from English author and drama critic Charles Purdom in the year of publication whose arch tone sounds like he was in on the joke: "Dear Miss Buttle You were a very good girl to send me a copy of The Sweeniad & not at all an ordinary girl to have made so well deserved an examination of the great Sweeney. It is writing of himself at his best. Similar personal attention to his so-called plays would be much appreciated by me. He is the nothingness of our age great ability with waste of soul. Your book gave me great pleaseure. I hope you are sleeping well. Yours sincerely C.B. Purdom." Also laid in is a similarly arch two page Autograph Letter Signed from "Myra Buttle": in part "How very kind of you to write to me so encouragingly about The Sweeniad!. Perhaps one of these days I may have a bang at the so-called plays too. The Response I am getting is very heartening Bertrand Russell is enthusiastic. Graham Greene surprisingly enough sends me a post-card with 'Bravo' on it." Buttle goes on to reveal the answer to a riddle in the text. The Broadwater Press, Limited hardcover
2017rif. FB1132 /attcIn the original dust sheet. Green board with gilt title on the spine. In many country houses the Library is the most spectacular room in the house. At Blickling in Norfolk the Long Gallery 123 feet long and lined end-to-end with books is unforgettable. At Alnwick Castle in Northumberland the double-height Library shelved from floor to ceiling is enormous and at Calke in Derbyshire it is the second largest room in the house. Elsewhere interiors impress less for their size than for their opulence. At Traquair south of Edinburgh each bay of shelving has a classical author painted on the cornice above just as in the seventeenth-century Library of the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton 1570/1–1631 at Westminster where the bust of a Roman emperor once sat atop each bookcase. At Abbotsford many of Sir Walter Scott's books remain on the shelves of the great room he created for them while the library of another bestselling novelist survives at Hughenden the Buckinghamshire retreat of Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. But the history of libraries in country houses is a history of lost libraries as well as extant collections. Quite apart from books sold by the descendants of their original owners libraries have always been subject to dissolution in more dramatic fashion. The library of the 3rd Duke of Argyll was described in a lavishly produced catalogue published by the Foulis Press in Glasgow in 1758 and subsequently sold to George III's Prime Minister the 3rd Earl of Bute 1713–92. It was then destroyed in a fire at Bute's English home Luton Hoo in 1771. Nearly two hundred years later the library of the aesthete Ralph Dutton 1898–1985 was destroyed in 1960 in a great fire at Hinton Ampner near Winchester. So intense were the flames that the books were left 'almost petrified as if engulfed by a volcanic eruption'. In Ireland many libraries perished in the house burnings which marked the end of the old order during the War of Independence and ensuing Civil War. It was not a new phenomenon. In a leaflet in circulation during the Land War in the 1880s beleaguered Irish gentry were already being advised to use heavy ancestral books to barricade windows against attack. In fact by the revolutionary era many Irish libraries had already been sold following state-sponsored land reforms begun in the dying decades of British rule in Ireland. In both Britain and Ireland there are many instances where a house survives but its library does not. It comes as a surprise that there was a major library at Castletown in County Kildare as recently as the 1960s. At Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire probably not one National Trust visitor in a thousand realises that the seventeenth-century Long Gallery was once shelved end to end . At Ettington Park in Warwickshire now a hotel the spectacular Gothic Library built by the gentleman-scholar E. P. Shirley 1812–82 remains. Guests can decide whether they believe in the Library poltergeist but Shirley's books like those from his Irish house at Lough Fea County Monaghan are gone. In both cases the loss of a remarkable library is a pointer to an important fact. The more magnificent the books and the more quickly the shelves had been filled by an enthusiastic nineteenth-century collector the more likely it was that they would eventually be removed and sold. Then there are the many country houses which are today open to the public but where visitors see little or nothing of books. At Chatsworth visitors are only able to look through the Library door though even that is spectacular. At Longleat most of one of the finest private libraries in the world is not seen by ordinary tourists at all. To varying extents the same is true of houses like Holkham Houghton Goodwood Petworth and Knole where libraries are not in show rooms long open to tourists but in historically private apartments in rooms which frequently remain off-limits to casual sightseers. The reasons are not difficult to guess at but the logic is that there are more grand libraries in private hands than many people realise. But there are also many libraries which are if less spectacular in many ways just as remarkable. Sometimes in show houses and sometimes in houses very much in private occupation these smaller libraries may be accommodated in modest and unpretentious rooms. Their books may have been in place for centuries and be of considerable interest. At Gunby Hall the library assembled by the Massingberds a family of east Lincolnshire squires goes back to the late seventeenth century. Though battered and now only a partial survival the books provide a fascinating flavour of gentry life in an often-forgotten corner of England. Elsewhere quite ordinary eighteenth- or nineteenth-century books may be housed in apartments of some magnificence. At Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire a double-height Library provides the link between a comfortable Victorian family home and a vast conservatory clearly inspired by the Crystal Palace. At Sheringham Park the books of the Upcher family high-minded Norfolk squires remain in the room designed for them by Humphry Repton 1752–1818 a space in every sense the precursor of the modern living room. There is an almost equally elegant Regency Library at Wassand Hall in East Yorkshire a Catholic house and like Gunby still with its original books while similarly interesting books are found in houses like Farnborough Hall in Warwickshire or Dudmaston in Shropshire. Other libraries survive but not in situ nor in the hands of their original aristocratic owners. The most spectacular is the vast library of the bibliomaniac 2nd Earl Spencer 1758–1834 from Althorp Northamptonshire sold en bloc in 1892 to the Cuban-born Enriqueta Rylands as the foundation collection of the new research library she founded in memory of her husband the Manchester cotton magnate John Rylands 1801–88. There was nothing new in the institutionalisation of aristocratic libraries. The 5th Duke of Norfolk had at the suggestion of John Evelyn given his personal library to the Royal Society in 1667 while Frances Duchess of Somerset gave about 1000 books from her late husband's library to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield in 1674. The magnificent library from Stoneleigh Abbey Warwickshire was bequeathed to Oriel College Oxford in 1786. The college showed its gratitude by commissioning an exquisite new building from James Wyatt to house the books and by quietly selling Lord Leigh's Shakespeare First Folio to Sir Paul Getty in 2002. Deplorable though this seemed to many Oriel was not doing anything new in selling to a private collector. As far back as 1811 T. F. Dibdin 1776–1847 had procured three Caxtons from Lincoln Cathedral for the library of his patron Earl Spencer. Other country house libraries were subject to what amounted to a rather subtle nationalisation in the years following the Second World War. A large number of manuscripts from the library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham went to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in the 1950s. Other Holkham books ended up in the British Library as did books from Chatsworth including incunabula and the tenth-century Benedictional of St Æthelwold. The transfer of these and other treasures to public ownership was the consequence not only of the enormous death duties of the post-war period but also of new regulations on export stops. But for some books it was already too late. Had export stops been in place in the early 1930s it seems inconceivable that two more great Anglo-Saxon manuscripts the eighth-century Blickling Psalter and the Blickling Homilies would have been allowed to leave the United Kingdom. This dovetails neatly into another form of nationalisation. The National Trust was founded in 1895 and its first books were at Coleridge's Cottage Nether Stowey Somerset acquired in 1907. However its first serious library at Blickling was bequeathed along with the house by the 11th Marquess of Lothian in 1940. It has sometimes been said that Lothian's involvement in the Trust's Country Houses Scheme 1934 was the result of his distress at the sale of books from Blickling and his principal Scottish seat Newbattle Abbey in 1932. If this was the case there is no reference to it in Lothian's papers and no mention of libraries in his correspondence with the National Trust. The crucial point is that Lothian lent his name to the Country Houses Scheme and subsequently left Blickling and its remaining 12561 books to the Trust. It was the beginning of a process which would subsequently see the gradual transfer of about 300000 books to the Trust whether by gift bequest Treasury transfer in lieu of death duties or later by purchase. A similar process was repeated on a smaller scale north of the border where the National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931. If there are now far fewer libraries in country houses than there were in the nineteenth century the number of survivors in both private and institutional hands is far from negligible. How many exactly is unclear but at the most conservative estimate we must be dealing with hundreds of thousands of books in hundreds of locations. So it remains surprising that so many libraries have been so consistently overlooked in modern times. When he died in 1682 the probate inventory of the 1st Duke of Lauderdale reckoned that his books at Ham House made up half the value of all the chattels in the house. One would scarcely guess this when reading the many publications on furniture pictures and upholstery at Ham the problem has recently been redressed with the publication in 2013 of a full-scale scholarly study of Ham which does includes a chapter on the lost library. Many similar books on other houses resolutely ignore libraries as do most of the enormous number of general books on country houses as well as many guidebooks. Yale University Press. hardcover
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