Reconstructing the personal library of William James : markings and marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection
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Reconstructing the personal library of William James : markings and marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection
(American philosophy)
Lexington Books, c2020
- : cloth
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Bibliography: p. 275-279
Includes index
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Description
While a reconstruction of the whole of William James's personal library isn't feasible, there are significant portions of it that reside within the Harvard University Library system and this book is a partial reconstruction of their story. Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James offers a new, comprehensive account of the James collection at Harvard University, bringing together all known Harvard-owned entries into one comprehensive volume. The annotated bibliography contains data on 2,554 entries (2,862 volumes) from James's personal library, including both the 1923 "Philosophical Library" and all known additional donations by James and his family. . Each entry, when applicable, contains the following data points: Harvard Library location and call number, provenance, bookplate, accession record, autographs, inscriptions, ownership marks, indexical annotations, markings, and marginalia. To orient the reader, Ermine L. Algaier IV supplements the bibliography with essays that examine the history of the James's library at Harvard, assess the size of the collection and how it came to reside at Harvard, and showcase patterns that emerge from looking at the collection as a whole. Additional essays are devoted to explaining the source lists and archival resources used in reconstructing James's personal library, as well as outlining steps for continued research on the collection.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Images and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Section I
Introduction
Chapter One William James's Personal Library: A Brief History
Chapter Two The Original Source Lists of the James Collection
Chapter Three Resources for Reconstructing James's Personal Library
Chapter Four Conservation and Preservation of the Collection
Chapter Five Markings, Marginalia, and Other Data from the collection
Chapter Six Future Research on the Collection
Section II
Brief Guide to Using the James Collection Bibliographies
Bibliography of James's Personal Library: Harvard Collection
Bibliography of James's Personal Library: Non-Harvard Collection
Bibliography
Index
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