The Rosenbach Museum & Library here presents many of its best-known volumes & re-examines oft-told tales of the Rosenbach brothers (Philip & Dr. A.S.W.) & their legendary buying & selling of remarkable books. As a result of extensive research in the Rosenbach Company Archive & in the papers of English libraries & collectors, Leslie Morris has reconstructed the Rosenbachs famous purchases from the Holford, Phillipps, & York Minster collections in considerable detail & has compiled -- for the first time -- checklists of the 297 individual titles acquired by the Rosenbach Co. in these private treaty sales. This exhibition could include only a selection of volumes from the complete checklists. Illustrations.

Rosenbach Abroad: In Pursuit of Books in Private Collections

Leslie A. Morris

Literature & Fiction

Rosenbach Museum & Library

The second catalogue in a series documenting the private treaty purchases made by Dr. Rosenbach in Europe in the 1920s. While some of these stories have been related before, this cat. goes beyond the anecdotal to document the specifics of these private transactions. The story of the dispersal of these books & manuscripts from collector to dealer & then back to collectors, private & institutional, helps make concrete the debt American collectors owe to those of the past. Contents: A note on the checklists; The Helen s Tower Lib.; Printed books, & Manuscripts; The Percy Lib. & the Earls of Caledon: Printed books, & Manuscripts; The Lough Fea & Ettington Lib. of Evelyn Philip Shirley; The Grosvenor Lib.: & Printed books, Illustrations.

Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland

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Books by Leslie A. Morris

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Leslie A. Morris. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Rosenbach Abroad: In Pursuit of Books in Private Collections

Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland