Rare books don’t have a
gender. However, bibliographers do and the overwhelming majority has been
male. I’m a collector drawn to new paths and over the years I’ve gathered
material related to early American women bibliographers active in the pre-WWII era
before 1941. My recent research on Henrietta C. Bartlett raised a
deceptively simple question. Who was the first American women
bibliographer to compose a bibliography and have her name on the
title-page? The following essay attempts to answer that question and shed
light on other pre-WWII practitioners. I felt like an explorer in an
uncharted jungle at times, machete in hand, hacking away but making
progress. I have little doubt I have missed a find or two in my
exploration and welcome input.
The parameters of my
search are bibliographies focusing on rare books and / or first editions. These
would be of book-length or substantial pamphlets (no separates or offprints)
and explicitly credit the woman bibliographer as author / compiler.
The definition of a bibliography demands some leeway as there are
many different forms. A simple checklist for example would not qualify in
my hunt but a well-researched short-title catalogue might.
There are cases of
biblio-women assisting with bibliographies (including some of the women noted
here) who should have garnered a varsity position on the title-page but instead
were relegated to an acknowledgement. But that is another story beyond
the present scope.
I contemplated saving
the earliest located bibliography for last to heighten the intrigue but that
just didn’t seem bibliographical. So, let’s get to it. The
oldest example I’ve found is Nina E. Browne’s A Bibliography of
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
1905). The book was designed by Bruce Rogers and issued in an edition of
550 copies. The publisher’s prospectus states that “It contains, along
with the entry of Hawthorne’s published work, whether in book form or in old
magazines or newspapers, everything that can be discovered in print about
Hawthorne, in both books and periodicals. Much pains have been given to
the arrangement to make it as helpful as possible, both to the literary worker,
and to the collector.”
Nina Browne (1860-1954),
earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Smith College (1882 /1885), and
then enrolled in Melvil Dewey’s fledgling school of Library Economy at Columbia
College. The biographical sketch in the finding aid to her papers at
Smith College records, “The
school was established in 1887 by Melvil Dewey, then the chief university
librarian. Browne later noted that ‘when the trustees decided to have the
library school, no one of them had a notion that women would come. Because
women came, that rule forbidding a woman to enter a classroom forced Mr. Dewey
to find a place for the newcomers. He found it in this old building hitherto
used as a storeroom.’”
The
sketch continues, “Columbia did not grant degrees to the classes prior to 1889
and the library program was moved to the University of the State of New York
(now SUNY Albany). After being appointed State Librarian of New York in 1889,
Dewey petitioned the university to offer a test to graduates from his early
classes which required submitting to sixteen proficiency examinations, a
compiled subject bibliography, and a thesis. Browne and one other student were
the sole participants of this program. Browne was awarded a Bachelor of Library
Science from the university in 1891.”
Browne
utilized this intensive training to develop a career as a prominent librarian
and archivist, working variously at Harvard University, the Boston Athenaeum,
and Smith College. She was also heavily involved with the American
Library Association serving in various capacities including being a member of
the publishing board. To top things off, this proactive woman invented what
was known as the Browne Issue System, a systematic way for loaning
library books, used widely in the 1890s.
Browne
writes of the genesis of her Hawthorne book in the preface, “The Bibliography
represents work covering some sixteen years. It was begun in 1888 to
fulfill a requirement for graduation at the Library School of Columbia College,
but it was not presented for a degree until 1891. . . Thereafter the
subject, which had originally been selected because there existed no published
Bibliography of Hawthorne, became so fascinating in itself that work upon it
has continued to occupy as much of the compiler’s time as could be spared to
it. The centenary of Hawthorne so widely observed last summer has aroused
such interest in all that pertains to Hawthorne that the present has been
thought an auspicious time for making available to the public the mass of
material so collected.”
Browne
goes on to cite sources as well as her efforts to make the bibliography useful
to a variety of readers. Of relevance to book hunters she writes, “Many
details have also been included that will, it is hoped, make the work of
particular value to collectors.” Among the acknowledgements, she thanks
the Grolier Club of New York for permission to make use of their First
Editions of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne [1905], and “especially
to Mr. P.K. Foley, who has read the proofs.”
Browne’s
interaction with the Grolier Club and the utilization of P. K. Foley, then the
leading rare book dealer in American literature, shows her immersion not only
in the subject but also her active engagement with the rare book
world. A Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne has been
superseded by later works, but it still stands as an impressive bibliographical
achievement, heightened by its status as quite possibly the first significant
bibliography by an American woman.
Henrietta C. Bartlett
(1873-1963) followed soon after with a series of important publications.
She was one of the foremost bibliographers of her time. Bartlett
lived most of her life in New Haven, Connecticut and had close ties to Yale
through her family. Her mother was a Terry, another prominent New England
family along with the Bartlett’s, and her mother’s cousin was the famous book
collector Roderick T. Terry (1849-1933). The Dictionary of
American Book Collectors says of Terry, “He became a member of the
Grolier Club and in that environment was able to enjoy the companionship of
such avid collectors as Beverly Chew, William A. White, and John B.
Thacher.”
Henrietta Bartlett would
serve as private librarian and cataloguer for both Chew and White.
Biographical details about Bartlett’s entry into the rare book world are scant
but it is likely Terry was involved in some fashion. Bartlett also had a
close friendship with Ruth Granniss, the Grolier Club librarian who knew
Beverly Chew well. Whatever the point of initiation, Bartlett flourished,
working closely with Chew as his private librarian, cataloging his library, and
developing an expertise in Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.
Bartlett’s papers and
correspondence are at Yale where in the 1920s and 1930s she gave lectures on
bibliography, collecting, and rare books. The list of correspondents in
the finding aid is extensive and shows that she was in contact with an
incredible range of prominent collectors, dealers, bibliographers, and
librarians. She was also involved with the Hroswitha Club, an
alternative to the Grolier Club for women when the Grolier Club was men only.
The earliest
bibliographic work credited to her name is A Catalogue of the David N.
Carvalho Collection of Incunabula Consisting of a Sequence of Dated Books
1470-1499 Together with a Number of Sixteenth Century Books Compiled and
Annotated by Henrietta C. Bartlett (NY: Dodd & Livingston,
1911). Bartlett’s collations and descriptions of the 169 items are
extremely detailed and reflect a very high skill level. Booksellers
Robert Dodd and Luther Livingston offered Carvalho’s collection en bloc for
$10,000.
More well-known is the
classic bibliography co-authored with eminent British bibliographer Alfred
Pollard A Census of Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto, 1594-1709 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1916). A revised edition was published in
1939. The work provides collations for each edition / issue and gives
detailed descriptions of all located copies, including completeness of text,
condition, bindings, and other relevant notes. It is also a tour
de force of provenance research, providing the ownership history of
each copy when known, including quotes from annotations of previous
owners. The index is noteworthy as it provides brief biographical
sketches of many bookmen and women. Bartlett writes in the introduction
to the revised edition, “[The index] includes every name of owner, bookseller,
auctioneer, or binder found in the census and should be of use to many who are
interested in the history of books other than Shakespeare Quartos.”
The industrious Ms. Bartlett also
authored Mr. William Shakespeare:
Original and Early Editions of His Quartos and Folios, His Source Books and
Those Containing Contemporary Notices (1922) and Catalogue of Early English books, Chiefly of the Elizabethan
Period. Collected by William Augustus
White and Catalogued by Henrietta C. Bartlett (1926).
Librarian and
bibliographer Ruth Granniss (1872-1954) was a close friend of Henrietta
Bartlett. As an aside to their
bibliographic work, the two women compiled an unusual anthology of poems on the
subject of sleep by prominent authors printed in a variety of typefaces titled A Garland of Poppies (NY: De Vinne Press,
1905). Granniss began work at the
Grolier Club in New York City in 1903 and in 1906 became librarian, serving in
that capacity until 1944. She was
heavily involved with the Club’s publications, research, and social
activities. However, the only
bibliographic publication that credits her on the title-page is A Descriptive Catalogue of the First
Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley Based on a
Memorial Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club from April 20 to May 20, 1922. (NY:
The Grolier Club, 1923). Granniss’
introduction explains the writing of the catalogue and traces the history of
Shelley as a collected author among American bibliophiles, many of whom she
knew first-hand. 
Granniss also was the co-author with
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt and Lawrence Wroth of The
Book in America: A History of the Making, the Selling, and the Collecting of
Books in the United States. (NY: R. R. Bowker Company, 1939). She contributed the section tracing “American
Book Collecting and the Growth of Libraries.”
A contemporary of Bartlett and Granniss
was Flora V. Livingston (1862-1949) who rose to prominence under tragic circumstances. Her husband was highly-regarded bookman and
bibliographer, Luther Livingston. The
two met through family matchmaking in the 1890s after Luther was laid up for a
few weeks due to a bicycle accident. They
married in 1898 and shared a passion not only for books but also plants and
gardening.
As Luther gained prominence in the book
world, Flora assisted him with his bibliographic projects. Luther was diagnosed with a rare bone disease
in 1912. Treatment was sought and a cure
looked promising. In 1914, at the peak
of his career, an ailing but seemingly improved Luther was hired to be the
first curator of the Widener Library at Harvard. The library was built by the Widener family
in honor of their son Harry Widener, an avid book collector and friend of
Livingston’s, who perished on the Titanic.
On Christmas Eve 1914, Luther Livingston
died unexpectedly from his health issues and never assumed his dream job. George Parker Winship, a friend of the
Livingston’s and a highly qualified bookman himself, was then selected to
become the first curator. In a move both
sentimental and brilliant, Flora Livingston was hired as Winship’s assistant. When Winship was promoted to library director
in 1926, Flora Livingston became the curator of the Widener Library, a position
she held for the next twenty-one years.
Flora continued a number of joint bibliographic projects begun with her
husband and developed others independently.
Her revised edition
of A Bibliography of the Works of Robert
Louis Stevenson (London: Frank Hollings, 1917) credits her on the
title-page as Mrs. Luther S. Livingston.
She writes in the editorial note, “The compiling of this new edition has
been a pleasant task in memory of three good friends who spent happy hours
together, and who knew Stevenson’s writings so well—Colonel Prideaux, whose
work is monumental, Harry Elkins Widener, whose collection has made this task
possible, and Luther S. Livingston.” |
| Signed by Livingston |
She also avidly pursued the subject of
Rudyard Kipling and the resulting Bibliography
of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (NY: Edgar H. Wells & Company, 1927)
and the supplement volume (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938)—over 900 pages
total-- show Flora in full command of her skills.
August Imholtz, Jr. writes in his essay,
“Flora V. Livingston: Curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection” (Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4,
1998): “In the course of collecting,
comparing, and analyzing Kipling editions, Flora and her sister-in-law Florence
Milner (who had preceded Flora at Harvard and was head of the Farnsworth
Memorial Reading Room in the Widener Library) made many trips to England where
they visited, for example, with Kipling and his wife at Bateman’s, the Kipling
home. During one of those trips, the two
Harvard librarians spent an enjoyable few days in the company of William Butler
Yeats and his wife. They also met Lewis
Carroll’s niece Menella Dodgson and his nephew Major Dodgson. . . .”
This interest in Lewis Carroll
eventually resulted in the important bibliographic work by Livingston, The Harcourt Amory Collection of Lewis
Carroll in the Harvard College Library (Cambridge: Privately Printed,
1932).
Margaret Stillwell (1887-1984), another
prominent bibliographer, shared a common link with Flora Livingston via her
connection with George Parker Winship.
Winship was the librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown
University before becoming curator at the Harvard’s Widener Library. Winship hired Stillwell as his “assistant in
training” in 1907 during her sophomore year of college at Brown. She worked closely with him for seven years
until 1914, when at Winship’s urging she took advantage of an opportunity to
work at the New York Public Library with the great bibliographer, Wilberforce
Eames. Under Winship’s and Eames’
tutelage she became one of the top women in the rare book field. Stillwell served most of her career as
librarian /curator of the Annmary Brown Memorial Library at Brown
University. The library contained the
collection of Civil War hero and incunabula collector, Rush Hawkins
(1831-1920). Hawkins’ early printed
books were not the only thing stored at the library. After his death, his ashes were entombed
within along with those of his wife.
Stillwell’s exposure
to early printed books and Americana led to a number of highly-regarded
publications. The first was Incunabula and Americana, 1450-1800: A Key
to Bibliographical Study (NY: Columbia University Press, 1931). In the preface, Stillwell expresses her
thoughts on the subject, “Bibliographical analysis . . . and the fine points in
the technique of the game, should not be mistaken for bibliography itself. Behind the physical make-up and the questions
involved in determining the physical origin of a book are an understanding and
evaluation of its subject matter. Behind
these is the personality of the author.
Behind that is the relation of the book and its writer to the thought of
the times. Technical analysis is but a
means to an end . . . each printed work is given its rightful place among the
records of the past. It is in this final
aspect that bibliography appears in its true light, and it is through sources
and methods such as these herein indicated that the bibliographical study of
incunabula and Americana may be undertaken.” |
| Copy in the dust jacket |
Stillwell’s most well-known
bibliographic contribution was Incunabula
in American Libraries: A Second Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Owned in the
United States, Mexico, and Canada. (NY: The Bibliographical Society of
America, 1940). Although published in
1940, she began work on the Census in
the 1920s, building upon work begun by her mentor, Winship. The Census
compilation was tedious and exacting and resulted in much contact with a
wide variety of librarians and collectors.
As one bibliographer seems to beget
another, a young Frederick Goff (1916-1982), a student at Brown, worked as an
“assistant in training” with Stillwell on the Census project. Goff would
eventually go onto a prominent career as Chief of the Rare Books Division at
the Library of Congress. Goff carried on
Stillwell’s work and edit the third edition of the Census published in 1964.
Stillwell in her autobiography Librarians are Human: Memories In and Out of
the Rare Book World, 1907-1970 (1973) recalls the Census work. On a wider
scale, her recollections provide a unique view from a woman’s perspective of a
male dominated field. The book is scarce
and deserves to be reprinted.
A
number of other American women bibliographers received title-page credit for
their work in the 1920s and 1930s.
Writer and novelist Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an avid book collector
who formed an excellent collection of Walt Whitman (now at the Library of
Congress). She co-authored with New York
collector and bookseller, Alfred F. Goldsmith A Concise Bibliography of the Works of Walt Whitman with a Supplement
of Fifty Books about Whitman. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922).
Lucy Eugenia Osborne (1879-1955) began
her career in rare books as a cataloguer and assistant to New York bookseller
Lathrop Harper, one of the most prominent dealers of his time. She would go on to become the first Custodian
/ Librarian of the Chapin Library at
Williams College. Her work The Chapin Library at Williams College: A
Short-Title List. (Portland, ME:
The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1939) only scratched the surface of her
extensive bibliographical knowledge.
My explorations turned up other works of
which little biographical information about the bibliographer was readily
available. One example includes Bertha
Coolidge’s A Catalogue of the Altschul
Collection of George Meredith in the Yale University Library (Privately
Printed: 1931). Coolidge is also
recorded by Alexander Wainwright as the anonymous compiler of Morris L.
Parrish’s A List of the Writings Of Lewis
Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson]in the Library at Dormy House, Pine Valley, New
Jersey (Privately Printed: 1928).
Just last month while excavating the
sale shelves at Half Price Books in Austin, I bought another example for two
dollars, Ruth Elvish Mantz’s The Critical
Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield (NY: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith,
Inc., 1931). Mantz was a Stanford
graduate and two years after this bibliography appeared she authored a
biography of Mansfield. The bibliography
is impressive with full collations of the primary works and reference to the
first periodical appearances of Mansfield’s stories, poems, essays, reviews,
and translations. Her foreword states
that “Dr. Margery Bailey of Stanford University first suggested that the
collected material should take bibliographical form, and her encouragement and
her annotations on the original copy were invaluable.” To ice the cake for my interests, Mantz spends
a significant amount of time in the foreword discussing the collecting of
Mansfield’s works, “Many of these are yet within the reach of the amateur
collector, although the early volumes have become rare collectors’ items.”
I expect more such discoveries, both
serendipitous and proactive, as explorations continue. A preliminary checklist of these pre-WWII
bibliographies in chronological order is as follows:
1896
Louise Rankin Albee. THE BARTLETT COLLECTION. A LIST OF BOOKS ON ANGLING, FISHES, AND FISH CULTURE. Cambridge: Library of Harvard University, 1896.
1905
Nina E. Browne. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905.
1911
Henrietta C.
Bartlett. A CATALOGUE OF THE DAVID N. CARVALHO
COLLECTION OF INCUNABULA CONSISTING OF A SEQUENCE OF DATED BOOKS 1470-1499
TOGETHER WITH A NUMBER OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY
HENRIETTA C. BARTLETT. New York: Dodd
& Livingston, 1911.
1916
Henrietta
C. Bartlett & Alfred W. Pollard. A CENSUS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN
QUARTO, 1594-1709. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916. Revised edition by Bartlett published in
1939.
Mary Fowler.
CORNELL
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. CATALOGUE OF THE PETRARCH COLLECTION BEQUEATHED BY WILLARD
FISKE.
London: Oxford University Press, 1916.
1917
Flora V.
Livingston. Colonel
W. F. Prideaux and Mrs. Luther S. Livingston. A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. London: Frank
Hollings, 1917. Edited and Supplemented by Mrs. Luther [Flora] S. Livingston.
1921
Mary Fowler. CATALOGUE OF THE DANTE COLLECTION PRESENTED
BY WILLARD FISKE. ADDITIONS 1898-1920.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 1921.
1922
Henrietta
C. Bartlett. MR. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE: ORIGINAL AND EARLY EDITIONS OF HIS QUARTOS AND FOLIOS, HIS SOURCE
BOOKS AND THOSE CONTAINING CONTEMPORARY NOTICES. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1922.
Carolyn Wells
& Alfred Goldsmith. A CONCISE
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF WALT WHITMAN WITH A SUPPLEMENT OF FIFTY BOOKS
ABOUT WHITMAN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1922.
1923
Ruth
S. Granniss. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM OF THE
WRITINGS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY BASED ON A MEMORIAL EXHIBITION HELD AT THE
GROLIER CLUB FROM APRIL 20 TO MAY 20, 1922.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1923.
Mae I. Sterns. THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: CHECK LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLISH BEFORE 1641. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1923.
1926
Henrietta
C. Bartlett.
CATALOGUE OF EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS, CHIEFLY OF THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD.
COLLECTED BY WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WHITE AND CATALOGUED BY HENRIETTA C.
BARTLETT. New York: Privately Printed
for Mr. W. A. White, by the Pynson Printers, Inc. 1926.
Verna B. Grimm. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKPLATE LITERATURE. Spokane: Public Library, 1926. Edited by George W. Fuller. Bibliographic Work by Verna B. Grimm.
Verna B. Grimm. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKPLATE LITERATURE. Spokane: Public Library, 1926. Edited by George W. Fuller. Bibliographic Work by Verna B. Grimm.
1927
Flora V. Livingston. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RUDYARD KIPLING. NY: Edgar H. Wells & Company, 1927.
1929
Margaret
Hastings Jackson. CATALOGUE OF THE FRANCES TAYLOR PEARSONS PLIMPTON COLLECTION OF ITALIAN
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1929.
Clara Louisa
Penney. LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1601 IN THE
LIBRARY OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
NY: The Hispanic Society, 1929.
(also see under 1938).
Emily Ellsworth
Ford Skeel. MASON
LOCKE WEEMS: HIS WORKS AND WAYS IN THREE VOLUMES. A BIBLIOGRAPHY LEFT
UNFINISHED BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD. NY:
[The Plimpton Press], 1929.
1930
E.
Miriam Lone. SOME
NOTEWORTHY FIRSTS IN EUROPE DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. NY: Lathrop C. Harper, 1930. Lone was English by birth but served as chief
cataloguer for over thirty years of noted New York dealer Lathrop Harper.
1931
Bertha Coolidge. A CATALOGUE OF THE ALTSCHUL COLLECTION OF
GEORGE MEREDITH IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
Privately Printed: 1931. (also
see under Bertha Coolidge Slade, 1937).
Ruth Elvish
Mantz. THE CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KATHERINE
MANSFIELD. New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1931.
Margaret
Stillwell. INCUNABULA AND AMERICANA, 1450-1800:
A KEY TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1931.
1933
Lavinia Davis. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDITH WHARTON. Portland, ME: The Southworth Press, 1933.
1934
Louise Farrow Barr. PRESSES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THEIR BOOKS 1900-1933. Berkeley: The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1934.
Henry C. Bentley and Ruth S. Leonard. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, 1796-1934. Boston: Henry C. Bentley, 1934-35. 2 vols.
1935
Leona Baumgartner & John F. Fulton. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POEM OF SYPHILIS SIVE MORBUS GALLICUS BY GIROLAMO FRACASTORO OF VERONA. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935.
1936
Carolyn Thomas Foreman. OKLAHOMA IMPRINTS, 1835-1907: A HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA PRINTING BEFORE STATEHOOD. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936.
Sarah Briggs Latimore & Grace Clark Haskell. ARTHUR RACKHAM: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1936.
1937
Bertha Coolidge
Slade. MARIA EDGEWORTH, 1767-1849: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
TRIBUTE. London: Constable, 1937.
1938
Clara Louisa
Penney. LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED 1601-1700 IN THE
LIBRARY OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.
NY: Hispanic Society, 1938. (Also
see under 1929).
1939
Leona Baumgartner. JOHN HOWARD (1726-1790): HOSPITAL AND PRISON REFORMER. A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1939.
Katherine Golding Bitting. GASTRONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. San Francisco: [A.W. Bitting], 1939.
Lucy
Eugenia Osborne. THE CHAPIN
LIBRARY AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE: A SHORT-TITLE LIST. Portland, ME: The
Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1939.
1940
Margaret
Stillwell. INCUNABULA IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES: A SECOND CENSUS OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY
BOOKS OWNED IN THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, AND CANADA. New York: The Bibliographical Society of
America, 1940.
A few related association items in my collection:
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| Granniss's Shelley Bibliography signed and then presented to Estelle Doheny by Myrtle Crummer. |
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| Stillwell's Incunabula and Americana presented to her mentor, George Parker Winship |
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| Livingston's Bibliography of Kipling presented to bookman Edward Lazare from bookseller Marston E. Drake. Drake writes, "I cannot present this to you without writing that Mrs. Livingston was one of the finest of women; the wife of a great bookseller and bibliographer; a great bibliographer in her own right and friend of all booksellers." |
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