Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

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

Description

1. 5.5 linear feet (6 boxes, 1 v.)

Summary

1. Collection consists of book acquisition records of the library of Carl H. Pforzheimer.

Subject

1. Private libraries
2. Book collecting > United States
3. Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

Call number

1. MssCol 471

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Biography (note)

1. Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began collecting books while in his early teens.

Processing action (note)

1. Accessioned
2. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Carl H. Pforzheimer Library.

Title

1. Carl H. Pforzheimer Library acquisition records, 1918-1986.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

1. 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.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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1. Finding Aid

Added author

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

Research call number

1. MssCol 471