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Re: books on book collecting - for beginners



Thank you for the suggestion of A. Edward Newton. Another correspondent has recommended his Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections as especially interesting. Caroline Newton was a great benefactor of the library - her gifts included a Shakespeare 4th Folio, several Keats first editions, and a Swinburne manuscript.

Please let me know if any other books that might be interesting to our students come to mind.

Regards,
Marianne Hansen


Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:41:15 -0500
From: David Klappholz <d.klappholz@worldnet.att.net>
To: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: books on book collecting - for beginners
Message-ID: <a05001914b6c06059ab4d@[12.89.132.54]>


Do you seriously not include any books by that fellow -- his name
escapes me at the moment -- from Daylesford, er Berwyn, just a few
stops down the Main Line from the lovely town of Bryn Mawr.  All the
folks you mention below, with perhaps one exception that I can think
of, wrote GREAT books about collecting;  none of them, however,
started an entire generation of American businessmen -- and others --
in this book collecting game by demonstrating its amenities and
kindred affections.

Dave

PS I believe that the fellow's daughter was a
turn-of-the-20th-century Bryn Martyr and that, in her old age she was
quite a benefactor of the school.

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