The Ashley library
Subtitle: a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts, and autograph letters
By: collected by Thomas J. Wise. With a new pref. by Simon Nowell-Smith.
Publisher: Dawsons of Pall Mall
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Folkestone [Kent]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 -- Library -- Catalogs.; British Library -- Catalogs.; English literature -- First editions -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Rare books -- England -- London -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Manuscripts -- England -- London -- Catalogs.; English literature -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; English literature -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs.; Private libraries -- England -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.; Bibliography
Notes: Catalog of the author's library of 1st editions of the famous English poets and dramatists from Elizabethan times until the present.
"[In] this reprint ... [of the 1922-36 ed.] against all the entries of printed books received by the British Museum have been supplied the Ashley shelf-marks in the library of the Museum ... The occasional short notes written into entries, and the occasional deletions, have been taken from the marked set only accessible to readers in the reading room."