Carl H. Pforzheimer Library acquisition records 1918-1986

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Library acquisition records 1918-1986

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Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began collecting books while in his early teens. In the second, third and fourth decades of the 20th century, he assembled one of the most distinguished rare book and manuscript libraries of English and American literature, including important milestones in intellectual progress. His library included the contents of the catalog The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475-1700 (1940), now at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas, and the collection relating to Shelley and his circle now at the New York Public Library. The library, continued after his death by the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, also included rare continental incunables and 16th century books, various 18th-century landmarks of English literature, examples of fine printing, and original artwork used as book illustration. Collection consists of book acquisition records of the library of Carl H. Pforzheimer. Included are invoices and purchase memoranda and acquisition lists concerning items in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Shelley and his Circle Collection (which was transferred to The New York Public Library) as well as other works purchased for the Pforzheimer library.

5.5 linear feet (6 boxes, 1 v.)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313790

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957

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The New York financier and collector Carl Howard Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began acquiring materials documenting the English Romantic poets in the 1920s. After his death, his various collections became an asset of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc. In 1986, the Foundation gave to the New York Public Library those items pertaining to the Romantics (including ca. 12,000 printed items, cataloged separately and searchable in the NYPL catalogue), and other tangential material, along with an...

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

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Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger...