Virginia Council Library, Williamsburg, VA, book boards
Content Description
This collection contains book boards discovered in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library stacks in 2013. They were likely removed from volumes to be conserved/rebound by outside conservators before the UVA Library's conservation lab was established. Each board bears either the gilt, red leather label or the engraved bookplate of the Library of the Council of Virginia, housed in the Capitol building in Williamsburg. This library was the most important public library in Colonial Virginia; the labels/bookplate date from the mid-18th century. Relatively few books from this library are known to survive; although there are several in the Small Library. The volumes are most likely pre-1750 English legal works
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Unknown. Found in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library stacks by curator David Whitesell, 2013.
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Creation: c.1742
Extent
0.04 Cubic Feet (1 legal-sized file folder)
Inventory
Three book covers