MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Virginia Council Library, Williamsburg, VA, book boards

Unprocessed Material — Folder: ViU-2022-0147_001

Identifier: ViU-2022-0148

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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

Dates

Creation: c.1742

Extent

0.04 Cubic Feet (1 legal-sized file folder)

Inventory

Three book covers

Subjects

Genre / Form

Ledgers (account books)

Physical Storage Information

Folder: ViU-2022-0147_001 (Mixed Materials)

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