Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1959-1990 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
2 boxes, 1 vol.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The 'Secret Lives' typescript, also the gift of J. P. W. Gaskell, arrived two years after the bulk of the collection, in Sept. 1986.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence and papers relating to John Baskerville: a Bibliography, papers relating to his article 'Lay of the Case' in Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia vol. 22, 1969; papers relating to a checklist of early stereotype books; papers relating to frisket fragments for red printing; a photograph album for 'A Census of Wooden Presses'; a typescript and offprint of 'The Principles and Problems of Cataloguing Early Books in Research Libraries' with a French translation and offprint from the Association de l'Ecole Nationale Superieure de Bibliothecaires, 1976; photomechanical copies of early printers proofs; and a bound typescript of 'Secret Lives', dated 1990.