I was recently in Huddersfield, England, in the region of Yorkshire, for a conference and decided to take the opportunity to travel on England’s excellent rail system and go “up the road” to York. Besides walking around the historic city, I wanted to visit three Stainforth books held by the York Minster Library, on the … Continue reading A Yorkshire Diversion

One of the fun parts of tracking down Stainforth’s books is seeing the different types of libraries they have ended up in. As one might expect, most of the books (outside of the British Library’s collection) have so far surfaced in academic libraries and their associated rare book collections, but they have also surfaced in … Continue reading Tales of Two Libraries (and Three Books)

  The Stainforth Mapping Project might have its goal of tracking down the current location of his former library books, but we are also interested in how those books got to where they are now. To do this we have to work the trail from both ends: where they went after the auction in 1867 … Continue reading The Tale of Aphra Behn’s “A Pindarick Poem” and How it Came to CU