Card catalog of the library of William Augustus White, [ca. 1926].

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$a White, William Augustus, $d 1843-1927, $e collector.

$a Card catalog of the library of William Augustus White, $f [ca. 1926].

$a ca. 3000 $f cards (5 boxes) ; $c 12 x 20 cm.

$a 2.5 linear ft.

$a Organized into six series: I. English Literature before 1750; II. Modern English Literature (1750-1910); III. Americana; IV. Foreign Language Books; V. Manuscripts; VI. Maps.

$a Title devised by cataloger.

$a White was a member of the Grolier Club from 1889 until his death; he was elected to honorary membership in 1925.

$a The collection consists of ca. 3000 cards (5 x 8"), containing detailed bibliographical descriptions for about 2700 titles.

$8 1.1\a $a White, William Augustus (Estate of) $b 158 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY $c Gift $d 1928 $e --/--/1928 $n l lf. $3 Catalog cards (3000)

$a William Augustus White (born December 12, 1843 in Brooklyn) was the senior partner in a firm of New York City investment bankers with offices at 14 Wall Street. He began serious book collecting in 1885 and became perhaps the greatest collector of William Blake in the United States as well as a preeminent collector of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. He also created an important collection of Shakespeare quartos and one of the first significant collections of Americana. White freely lent his books to scholars and to institutions for exhibitions. He was the chief lender to the Grolier Club's William Blake exhibitions of 1905 and 1919 and a leading force behind the club's publication of Geoffrey Keynes' Bibliography of William Blake (1921). After his death the estate sold many of the Shakespeare quartos to his alma mater, Harvard University; most of the Blake books were retained by his daughter until her own death in 1958. They were sold at auction by Sotheby's the following year. The remainder of his collection was sold on consignment by the dealer A.S.W. Rosenbach; many of these items were purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, who later donated them to the Library of Congress.

$a White employed Henrietta C. Barlett to prepare a catalog of his library. The bound catalog includes a valuation of the library prepared by Arthur Swann shortly before White's death. In 1914, the Handlist of Early Printed Books Mostly of the Elizabethan Period was privately printed. The cards for the entire library were photoduplicated, and bound sets (10 volumes, n.d.) were deposited in the libraries of the Grolier Club and Yale and Harvard Universities. Other sets went to the Library of Congress and the Newberry and Pierpont Morgan Libraries and to book dealer John Fleming.

$8 1.2\a $a Accessioned, processed, cataloged $c 20011011 $k BJD $3 Catalog cards (3000)

$8 1.3\a $a Physical location: Archives $3 Catalog cards (3000)

$a Blake, William, $d 1757-1827 $x Collectors and collecting.

$a Grolier Club $v Exhibitions.

$a Book collecting $z New York (State) $z New York $y 20th century.

$a Book collectors $z New York (State) $z New York $y 20th century.

$a English literature $x First editions $v Bibliography.

$a English literature $x Early Modern 1500-1700 $v Bibliography $v Catalogs.

$a Private libraries $z New York (State) $z New York $y 20th century.

$a Catalog cards. $2 aat

$a Library catalogues $z New York (State) $z New York $y 20th century. $2 rbgen

$a Book collectors $z New York (State) $z New York $y 20th century.

$a Bartlett, Henrietta C. $q (Henrietta Campbell), $d 1873-1963.

$a Grolier Club, $b PST18 $e 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098. $h \Archives

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