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Adams, Katharine, 1862-1952. Katharine Adams correspondence : and other material, circa 1898-1960.

Title: Katharine Adams correspondence : and other material, circa 1898-1960.

Approximately 150 letters written to Katharine Adams sending congratulations from clients for whom she had bound books, discussing technical problems (such as the warping of vellum boards), etc. Correspondents include John Charrington, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Douglas Cockerell, Lord Aldenham, C. Henry Daniel, Mary de Navarro, F.S. Ellis, C. Geoffroy-Dechaume, C.M. Gere, F.L. Griggs, C.H. St. John Hornby, F.G. Kenyon, C. Fairfax Murray, Philip Norman, Lucien Pissarro, Sarah Prideaux, G.B. Shaw, Sir Emery Walker, and others. Collections also includes: two autograph manuscript addresses given by Adams to the Women's Guild of Art (on Sarah T. Prideaux, Feb. 26, 1936, and May Morris, Feb. 1940); a record of bindings from 1898 to ca. 1935 comprising working designs in pencil or stamped in black with tools, including a number of trials for lettering; transfer-drawings used for decorative bookbindings, including an elaborate design for the Doves Press "Seven poems and two translations" by Alfred Lord Tennyson; small drawings used for the tooling of spines of the Dyson Perrine copy of the Doves Press Bible; and, miscellaneous photographs and postcards.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet)

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Cockerell, Sydney, Sir, 1867-1962. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Katherine Adams, 1931 June 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Katherine Adams, 1931 June 13.

Thanking her for her letter about the opening of the Coutlaud Galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum and telling some of his personal plans.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Morris, William, 1834-1896. List of books and manuscripts bought by William Morris, partly in his autograph, circa 1876.

Title: List of books and manuscripts bought by William Morris, partly in his autograph, circa 1876.

Manuscript list, in pen and black ink, of books bought by William Morris, partly in the hand of William Morris and partly in that of his daughter, May Morris. The list is undated but was probably compiled about 1876, before he began collecting in earnest. It includes the prices paid for most of the items. The inventory is collected on 38 pages within a simple, lined exercise book. The list came into the possession of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, whose inscription and brief summary of the volume appear on the front endpapers. On the rear endpaper, Cockerell notes: "Bound by Katharine Adams, Broadway, Worcestershire, 1911". The list appears to be the earliest attempt by Morris to inventory the books he owned. It includes 13 manuscripts (7 by Morris himself) and 291 printed books. Among the manuscripts are two Italian humanist works used as calligraphic models. The printed works include a number of incunables, the 1533 Paris edition of "Lancelot du Lac" from which Morris made his translation, and a number of dyeing manuals, including the earliest known work written on the subject. Many of the early printed works listed here were illustrated with woodcuts. English literature and history are well represented, along with Persian and Arabic tales and Elizabethan translations of the classics. The catalogue concludes with a large, distinct section of 18th- and 19th-century Scandinavian literature, including a number of Icelandic sagas.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([38] p.) ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702180127 View

Adams, Katharine, 1862-1952. Autograph letter signed : St. Briavels, Glos., to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1931 June 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : St. Briavels, Glos., to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1931 June 11.

Commenting at length on the opening of the Courtauld Galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum, writing of mutual friends and thanking Cockerell for his hospitality.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270994422 View

Corley, P. M. S. (Peter M. S.). Katharine Adams, C.H. StJ. Hornby and the Ashendene Press, 2000 / by P.M.S. Corley.

Title: Katharine Adams, C.H. StJ. Hornby and the Ashendene Press, 2000 / by P.M.S. Corley.

Photocopied typescript monograph consisting of excerpted letters, 1898-1945, between bookbinder Katharine Adams and Charles Harry St. John Hornby, founder of the Ashendene Press, with description and analysis by Corley. The correspondence concerns Adams as a collector and binder of Ashendene Press books, and binder of other books for Hornby. Also included are lists of Ashendene Press books collected by Adams (with notes on each book), accounts between her and the Press, 1903-1905, and bindings by her commissioned by Hornby.

ArchivalResource: 32 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50393178 View

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. [Pauline Epistles with commentary by Petrus Lombardus].

Title: [Pauline Epistles with commentary by Petrus Lombardus]. [ca. 1250]

ArchivalResource: 109 leaves (2 columns, 25 lines for Epistle and 50 for commentary), bound : vellum, ill. ; 375 x 265 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270700766 View

Catholic Church. Hore b[ea]t[a]e v[ir]ginis s[anctae] ad[que] usum ecclesie sancti Victoris Parisiensis, [between 1461 and 1480].

Title: Hore b[ea]t[a]e v[ir]ginis s[anctae] ad[que] usum ecclesie sancti Victoris Parisiensis, [between 1461 and 1480].

Illuminated book of hours and diurnal made for the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris, perhaps for the royal chapel, probably between 1461 and 1480 or 1483.

ArchivalResource: [156] leaves, bound : parchment, col. ill., coats of arms ; 10 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52005021 View

Guest, Emily, 1837-1919. Collection of autograph letters signed : London, etc., to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1890 June 22-1919 Nov. 20.

Title: Collection of autograph letters signed : London, etc., to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1890 June 22-1919 Nov. 20.

This collection includes 29 autograph letters signed from Guest to Cockerell; 18 autograph letters signed from Cockerell to Guest (dated Cambridge, etc., 29 December, 1891-11 May 1916); a copy of a Walter de la Mare poem written out by Guest and sent to Cockerell; an autograph letter signed from Stopford A. Brooke, dated 27 January, 1914, to Cockerell; a calligraphic poem by Stopford A. Brooke with a decorative border; two printed pamphlets written by Guest; an autograph letter signed from Emery Walker, 23 November, 1919, to Cockerell; 13 autograph letters signed from Ada Letton, servant and friend of Guest, dated London, etc., 23 May, 1907-23 December, 1921, to Cockerell; and 2 autograph letters signed from Guest to her friend Mrs. Miller.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 221 p.), bound : ill. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270506569 View