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Description: | Deposited by the Department of Manuscripts, British Library, 1974.
Photocopies of 21 manuscript letters from the printer Thomas Bensley (1760?Ã-1835) to F. J. Du Roveray, 1799Ã-1810, concerning the production of books, estimates for printing, problems with production or obtaining adequate paper supplies, experiments with a new typeface, book illustration, etc. Also a collection of 19 letters to Du Roveray from other correspondents (Robert Bowyer, Charles Pelichet, G. Testolini, Jeremiah Dyson, Brian Troughton) and drafts of four letters by Du Roveray. Some of the material concerns the illustrated folio edition of David HumeÃ's History of England printed by Bensley (10v., 1806; accession 37198).
The originals, previously the property of Miss E. A. T. Winchester, were sold by Sotheby, 8Ã-9 October 1973, lot 443, and are now in the Huntington Library, San Francisco. | Subjects: | Printing Letters (documents) Business records | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7583 7073 | Telephone: | 020 7353 4660 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7392 | Go to resource |
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