Guide to Topics

Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902)

A barrister of Lincoln's Inn, Bailey is a poet who came to the fore in the time between the Romantics and Victorians. He is one whom William Aytoun named as a member of the 'Spasmotic School' of poets.

BALLADS

BALLOONING

See entry for Aeronautica

Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937)

Barry Pain [Eric Odell] (1864-1928)

BASKERVILLE IMPRINTS

Beach, Sylvia (1887-1962)

Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's.

BEARDSLEY, AUBREY VINCENT (1872-1898)

BEERBOHM, MAX (1872-1956)

BEHRMAN COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

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LUDWIG, RICHARD M. “THE HOWARD T. BEHRMAN BEQUEST.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 48, no. 2, 1987, pp. 191–199. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26404512

BIBLES

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTABILIA at Princeton

BINDINGS

BISHOP, JOHN PEALE, Class of 1917 (1892-1944)

John Peale Bishop was a noted author, poet, and editor. Born in 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, Bishop entered Princeton University in 1913, where he edited the Nassau Literary Magazine. Upon graduation in 1917, he published his first volume of poetry, but his literary career was put on hold when he was commissioned in the United States Infantry during World War I. He returned to the United States in 1920 and joined the staff of Vanity Fair, where he later became managing editor. He began publishing his own poetry but met very little success, so he moved to a small town in France with his new wife. However, the European literary scene was similarly unreceptive to Bishop’s work, and he returned to the United States a few years later. Among his most known works are Many Thousands Gone, Now with His Love, Minute Particulars, Act of Darkness, and The Hours, an elegy for his dear friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Black history

Includes collections relating to the black diaspora, including African-American history, slavery, and policy.

BLACKMUR, R.P. (RICHARD PALMER) (1904-1965)

BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

BLIND, EARLY BOOKS FOR THE

BLOCKBOOKS

BLUESTOCKINGS

BOKER, GEORGE HENRY, Class of 1842, (1823-1890)

BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES

Book history and arts

Includes collections relating to book publishing, book collecting, and book design.

BOOKPLATES

BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION

BOUDINOT FAMILY

Brand Books

A printed register of brands used by individuals and companies to identify their livestock. Generally intended as a portable and utilitarian object, the typical brand book of the American West was often carried by working cowboys on the range.

British literature

Covers collections relating to literature and publishing in Britain and Ireland. Included are the papers of individual authors, editors, and publishers, as well as research collections on topics relating to British literature and the papers of literary scholars. Also present are artificial collections on individual authors and topics. Highlights include the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and the Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature.

BROADSIDES

Bronte Family

BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889) and BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806-1861)

BUCK, PEARL S. (PEARL SYDENSTRICKER) (1892-1973)

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803-1873)

BURR, AARON (1756-1836)

Burt Family

BYRON, GEORGE NOEL GORDON, 6TH BARON (1788-1824)

Byzantine Coinage

The core collection contains about 700 coins in gold, silver, bronze. Some of these have been described, together with examples in the Princeton University Art Museum, in S. Curcic and A. St. Clair, eds.,Byzantium at Princeton (Princeton,1986). The Byzantine coins from Princeton’s Antioch Excavations of the 1930s number about 3,000, chiefly bronze denominations from the period up to about 650 and during the tenth and eleventh century Byzantine re-occupation of the area.  These holdings are constantly being expanded, with the support of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund; the acquisition of the Peter Donald Collection in 2016 added about 6,000 Byzantine coins, chiefly in silver and bronze up to 1204, and in all metals thereafter.