Visit the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library
The Pforzheimer Collection is a rich collection of books, manuscripts, ephemera, and realia from the British Romantic period. Specific requests from visitors ahead of time are welcome.
Pforzheimer Collection NYPL 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018
The reading room of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public Library
Visit the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library
BSA members and friends are invited to visit the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library to explore materials related to book and printing history from the Romantic era — mostly but not entirely British.
Objects on view will include:
A box of wood block letters and illustrations from an 1820 volume of church history, apparently gathered by the printer, Thomas Davison (1794-1826), possibly for teaching purposes.
A Didot type specimen volume of 1824 for girls, entitled Livre pour une petite fille bien sage (Book for a Good Little Girl)
Specimen of Printing Types by Caslon & Livermore, London, 1822
A proof copy of the 1840 edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with revisions in Mary Shelley’s hand.
Draft essay “On Poetry” by Mary Wollstonecraft, briefly annotated after her death by her widower, William Godwin
The manuscript of William Godwin’s Lives of the Necromancers with additions and changes for the printers.
… and more!
The group is limited to eighteen, so register soon!
The first Welsh translation of James Albert Gronniosaw’s memoirs.
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Berr Hanes o’r pethau mwyaf hynod ym mywyd (Wales, 1779). New York Public Library.
A picture of the Chevalier d’Eon
Pierre Adrien Le Beau, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] (Paris, 1780s). New York Public Library.