Lecture: Alan Nelson, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)’
20 January 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Alan Nelson, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): eccentric publications of an eccentric man’
Sir Thomas Phillipps’s catalogues of his vast library of printed books, published chaotically 1819-1871, have experienced a similarly chaotic afterlife.