You're very welcome. I'd add Newton's Magnificent Farce, This Book Collecting Game, Greatest Book in the World (not self-referential, but, rather, a reference to the Bible, the subject of one of the essays) and Derby Day to a short list. Also ... there's a bibliography in Basbanes' A Gentle Madness which includes a few hundred books relating to book collecting; my guess is that your library owns at least 95% of them. I'd suggest giving those interested a copy of the bibliography, or a list of Bryn Mawr's holdings from the bibliography.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.*************************************************************************************************************** Special Collections Librarian mhansen@brynmawr.edu 610-526-5289 Mariam Coffin Canaday Library Bryn Mawr College 101 North Merion Avenue Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899