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Collection Overview
- Title:
- Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers Correspondence
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30pt41m
- Dates:
- 1822-1852
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers was a bookstore, publisher, and subscription library in London in the early to mid-19th century. Consists of an archive of 113 original notes and letters largely composed by British aristocrats or their personal secretaries and addressed to Messrs. Andrews, Booksellers, at 167 New Bond Street, requesting or returning books from the circulating library. The collection contains single letters addressed to Mr. Lodge, Mr. Rooke, and Messrs. Harding. The correspondence also includes requests for stationery, music, and the purchase of new books.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of an archive of 113 original notes and letters largely composed by British aristocrats or their personal secretaries and addressed to Messrs. Andrews, Booksellers, at 167 New Bond Street, requesting or returning books from the circulating library. The collection contains single letters addressed to Mr. Lodge, Mr. Rooke, and Messrs. Harding. The correspondence also includes requests for stationery, music, and the purchase of new books.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers was a bookstore, publisher, and subscription library in London in the early to mid-19th century.
John Andrews may have worked for John Ebers' Circulating Library in Old Bond Street before opening at 167 New Bond Street, probably around 1820, when he started advertising for the J. Andrews Circulating Library in various literary gazettes. Titles printed for "J. Andrews, New Bond St." were published as early as 1823, and from around 1827, he and Charles Andrews are listed in different directories as booksellers at the same address. From the 1840s, "Mrs. Andrews" or Eliza Andrews is listed as "bookseller and librarian" at the same address. Andrews Circulating Library operated until the 1850s as evidenced by newspaper advertisements.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was purchased from Julian Browning in 2012 (AM2012-92).
Additions were purchased from Richard Ford Manuscripts in 2012 (AM2012-96).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '14 in 2012
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Andrews Circulating Library and Booksellers Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30pt41m
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
