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Manuscript collection, 1621-1949, [ca. 1700-1850] (bulk).

Title: Manuscript collection, 1621-1949, [ca. 1700-1850] (bulk).

Correspondence, bills, accounts, invoices, legal documents, and lists of books, largely 18th to early 19th century. These record the business dealings primarily of booksellers and publishers, but also of book collectors, bookbinders, book auctioneers, printers, writers, and other book artists and tradesmen in England and the United States primarily, a few are in France or Italy. These include Thomas Jefferson (1795, a letter to his Paris bookseller, M. Froullʹe); Isaiah Thomas; Valentine Nutter; John Dunton; Jacques Truain (bill for books sold and bound by Truain, 1735-1736, for Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orlʹeans, duchess of Lorraine); Thomas Frognall Dibdin; Stanley Morison; Roger Warne; William Morris; John Starkey; William Upcott; Antonio Marsand; James Bettenham; David Hall (partner of Benjamin Franklin in Franklin and Hall); John Hughs; George Nicol ("Bookseller to His Majesty," fl. 1773-1790); and others. A few miscellaneous manuscripts not having to do with books include a marriage contract, 1661, signed by Jules Cardinal Mazarin, and a letter by Marianne Moore, 1949, to G.L. McKay.

ArchivalResource: .8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86132765 View

Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. Shearers / Henry Lawson.

Title: Shearers / Henry Lawson. 1925.

The text of the Henry Lawson poem, decorated with pictures of Australian flora, and bound by Morrell, Binders, London.

ArchivalResource: [10] leaves, bound : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222166931 View

Nicol, Gordon. Illuminated manuscript [manuscript].

Title: Illuminated manuscript [manuscript]. [ca. 1920-1929]

Illuminated manuscript of an eight line poem or stanza of a poem beginning "For some have travelled over". Contains a large initial "F" elaborately embellished against a gold-leaf background and decorated with an illustration of a kookaburra. The title or source of the verse, and its reason for production are unknown. The artist is presumed to be Gordon Dalrymple Nicol.

ArchivalResource: 42 x 33 cm. ; (1 folio item)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225771024 View

Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. Waratah & wattle / Henry Lawson.

Title: Waratah & wattle / Henry Lawson. 1925.

The text of the Henry Lawson poem, decorated with pictures of Australian flora.

ArchivalResource: [7] leaves, bound : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222166963 View