A. J. A. Symons collection, 1910-1993 (bulk 1910-1929)

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A. J. A. Symons collection, 1910-1993 (bulk 1910-1929)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316951789

Consists of a small number of selected manuscripts, correspondence and documents of the British biographer and bibliophile A. J. A. (Alphonse James Albert) Symons, chiefly related to Symons's work on the "Nineties," which was a bibliography (with biographies) of the writers and book illustrators of the Eighteen-Nineties.

.20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

Princeton University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7323328

Princeton University Library

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Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

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Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...

Symons, Julian, 1912-1994

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Julian Symons was an English novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, short-story writer, historian, and biographer. From the description of Julian Symons collection of papers, 1933-1967. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122531794 From the guide to the Julian Symons collection of papers, 1929]-1967, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British poet, novelist, historian, and critic J...