{"id":262,"date":"2010-10-11T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:45:27","slug":"dobell-catalogs-017-4-d65c-and-017-4-d65ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2010\/10\/11\/dobell-catalogs-017-4-d65c-and-017-4-d65ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobell Catalogs (017.4 D65c and 017.4 D65ca)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library recently discovered that we hold a complete set of the Dobell catalogs, which appear to have been owned by the Dobell family.\u00a0 On 16 July 1956, Gordon N. Ray purchased 22 volumes of the catalogs from Days Bookshop in England.\u00a0 These volumes are uniformly bound in three-quarters brown goat and have four raised bands and four gilt-stamped fleurons on the spine, in addition to the gilt titles.\u00a0 Bertram Dobells signature appears on the front free endpaper verso and below it, inscribed in pencil in a similar hand, is the note: Not for sale.\u00a0 The catalogs may have been sold to Days Bookshop following the death of Percy J. Dobell on 23 January 1956.\u00a0 A printed remembrance of Percy J. Dobell is tipped-in at the beginning of the 8 Bruton Street catalogs for 1921-22.\u00a0 The catalogs are largely unmarked, but a few have information regarding their exact date of publication and the number of copies issued inscribed in both pencil and ink at the top of the first page.\u00a0 The library also owns four further volumes of Dobell catalogs bound in library buckram, catalogs which may have been purchased by Gordon Ray at the same time, but in an unbound state.<\/p>\n

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Dobell Catalogs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bertram Dobell (1842-1914) was a London bookseller and scholar who issued his first catalog in 1876 and had issued 237 more before his death in 1914.\u00a0 At his death, his sons Percy and Arthur carried on the business under the name of P.J. & A.E. Dobell until their partnership was dissolved in 1946.\u00a0 At that point, Percy took full ownership of the Tunbridge Wells shop and Arthur the London shop.<\/p>\n

The Dobell family ran their bookselling business from several locations in London and then Tunbridge Wells throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.\u00a0 Bertram Dobell\u2019s first shop was located at 62 Queen\u2019s Crescent.\u00a0 In 1887, the business moved to 54 Charing Cross, and in 1894, a second London shop was opened at 77 Charing Cross.\u00a0 \u00a0In 1921, a location at 8 Bruton Street replaced the shop at 54 Charing Cross, and in 1934, a location at Tunbridge Wells replaced the Bruton Street branch.<\/p>\n

Several series of catalogs were issued by the Dobell family under various names and from various different locations, and as are follows:<\/p>\n

Bertram Dobell: no.1 (Apr. 1876)-no.27 (Dec. 1884) (nos. 6-11 issued as nos. I-VI of Dobell & Watson\u2019s)
\nBertram Dobell: \u00a0(New Series) no.1 (July 1885)-no.238 (1914)
\nP.J. & A.E. Dobell at Charing Cross: no.239 (1915)-no.461 (1946)
\nP.J. & A.E. Dobell at 8 Bruton Street: no.1 (Mar. 1921)-no.139 (Dec. 1934)
\nDobell\u2019s Antiquarian Bookstore at Tunbridge Wells: no.1 (Nov. 1933)-no.87 (1945)
\nPercy J. Dobell at Tunbridge Wells: no.88 (1946)-?<\/p>\n

Bertram Dobell\u2019s archive is located at the Bodleian Library and the discovery of the location of these catalogs adds significantly to the amount of material available for the study of the Dobell family and the London book trade.\u00a0 Gordon N. Ray (1915-1986) was a professor of English at the University of Illinois beginning in 1946 and was a major influence on special collections at the University.\u00a0 In the summers of 1950-57, Ray went on book-buying trips to England for the University.\u00a0 He was responsible for purchasing the H.G. Wells collection, the archives of the British publishers Grant Richards and Richard Bentley, and also the Tom Turner Collection of Victorian literature.\u00a0 These rediscovered catalogs further support Ray\u2019s stature as an important and forward-thinking collector of English literature. AD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library recently discovered that we hold a complete set of the Dobell catalogs, which appear to have been owned by the Dobell family.\u00a0 On 16 July 1956, Gordon N. Ray purchased 22 volumes of the catalogs from Days Bookshop in England.\u00a0 These volumes are uniformly bound in three-quarters brown goat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[61,68,76,130,204],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","category-catalogs","tag-arthur-dobell","tag-bertam-dobell","tag-booksellers-catalogs","tag-gordon-ray","tag-percy-j-dobell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}