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Richard Bentley manuscript material : 3 items
- Title
- Richard Bentley manuscript material : 3 items, 1832-1833
- Author
- Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Additional Authors
- Porter, Jane, 1776-1850
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 3 items
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Richard Bentley, English printer and publisher. His major contributions to nineteenth-century publishing are the Standard Novels, freshly revised texts of major contemporary authors made affordable for the middle class ; Bentley's Miscellany, the periodical in which Dickens's Oliver Twist was first published ; and Temple Bar, a popular literary magazine.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 76699436
- Author
- Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871.
- Title
- Richard Bentley manuscript material : 3 items, 1832-1833
- Summary
- · To Jane Porter, novelist : 3 autograph letters signed : 10 Oct 1832 - 8 Nov 1833 : (MISC 2359-2361) : on publishing matters. Bentley declines an offer for republication of Anna Maria Porter's Don Sebastian, arranges payment for Jane's introductions for her 'Standard Novels' editons, and declines to reprint a work.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Richard Bentley, English printer and publisher. His major contributions to nineteenth-century publishing are the Standard Novels, freshly revised texts of major contemporary authors made affordable for the middle class ; Bentley's Miscellany, the periodical in which Dickens's Oliver Twist was first published ; and Temple Bar, a popular literary magazine.
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- Added Author
- Porter, Jane, 1776-1850, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS