The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor. Printed Books and Bookbindings. By GILES BARBER.
2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/library/15.3.359
ISSN1744-8581
Autores Tópico(s)Scottish History and National Identity
ResumoThe latest volumes in the impressive series of Waddesdon catalogues, published by the Rothschild Foundation, describe the outstanding collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century books amassed by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century. It forms part of the bequest to the National Trust of Waddesdon Manor and its contents by Baron James de Rothschild. Graham Pollard devoted over ten years of his working life to studying and cataloguing the books at Waddesdon, but on his death in November 1976 the project was far from finished. It was fortunate that Giles Barber, then Librarian at the Taylor Institution in Oxford, accepted the invitation to complete this monumental undertaking. It is virtually impossible to take over someone else's work, unless it is very far advanced and every step of the research has been carefully documented. As this was not the case, the work had to be started afresh. Perhaps this too was fortunate, as the resulting two volumes are far more than a catalogue of books in sumptuous bindings.
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