Lot 133
  • 133

# - Reeves, Bookseller, Ltd., William.

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Description

  • Collection of cataloguing cards of the firm of "William Reeves, Bookseller, Ltd."
comprising handwritten cards and cards with descriptions from the Wolffheim sale catalogue and Sotheby catalogues laid down, with separate files of cards for printed music, autographs, portraits, non-music printed books, etc., one series of cards labelled "Client's File for Particular Catalogues", with extensive manuscript annotations in the hand of William Arnold Reeves  



in excess of 20,000 individual cards, various sizes, contained in 35 metal, wooden and card boxes, mostly second half of the twentieth century 

Literature

James B. Coover, 'William Reeves, Booksellers/Publishers, 1825-', in David Hunter (ed.), Music Publishing and Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel (Urbana-Champaign, 1994)

Catalogue Note

The card indexes relating to the stock of the longest-running music antiquarian firm in the Western world.