- Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
- Edited by Roberta Ricci
Poggio Bracciolini, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, and the Formation of the Goodhart Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books at Bryn Mawr College
- Eric L. Pumroy
- © 2020 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.14
The Poggio Bracciolini conference was dedicated to Bryn Mawr alumna Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994) one of the leading Poggio scholars of her generation and the editor of the only major collection of Poggio’s letters in English, Two Renaissance Book Hunters (Columbia University Press, 1974). Gordan and her father, Howard Lehman Goodhart (1887-1951) were also responsible for building one of the great collections of 15th century printed books in America, most of which is now at Bryn Mawr College. This paper draws upon Goodhart’s correspondence with rare book dealers and the extensive notes on his books to survey the strengths of the collection and to examine the process by which he built the collection and worked with rare book dealers in the difficult Depression and World War II years, the period when he acquired most of his books. The paper also considers Goodhart’s growing connections with scholars of early printing as his collection and interests grew, in particular the work of Margaret Bingham Stillwell, the editor of Incunabula in American Libraries (1940).
- Keywords:
- Phyllis Goodhart Gordan,
- Howard Lehman Goodhart,
- book collecting,
- incunabula,
Bryn Mawr College, United States
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Chapter Title
Poggio Bracciolini, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, and the Formation of the Goodhart Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books at Bryn Mawr College
Authors
Eric L. Pumroy
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.14
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016
Editors
Roberta Ricci
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
220
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3
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978-88-6453-967-6
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978-88-6453-968-3
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Atti
Series ISSN
2239-3307
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2704-6230