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Title

Alan G. Thomas correspondence and ephemera

Authors

• Thomas, Alan G
• Munby, A. N. L. 1913-1974
• Robinson, Lionel Keir, d. 1983
• Robinson, Philip

Call number

LJS 166
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5834621
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5834621

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Summary

Small collection, arranged chronologically, of friendly professional correspondence between London bookseller Alan G. Thomas and his colleagues, with A. N. L. Munby and Lionel and Philip Robinson being the most frequent correspondents and the sales by the Robinson brothers of the residue of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps the most frequent subject. Ephemera accompanying the correspondence includes the invitation and copies of the program for the dinner held by the Robinson brothers in honor of the centenary of the death of Phillipps; a photograph of the sculpture in Corfu of collector Frederick North, Earl of Guilford; newspaper clippings of the obituaries for Munby and Lionel Robinson; and the program of service for the funeral of Lionel Robinson.

Extent

47

Provenance

• Sold at auction as part of Thomas's library at Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 423, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Booksellers and bookselling--Great Britain

Genres

• Obituaries
• Photographs
• Programs
• Manuscripts, English--20th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

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