1927 Catalogue of the Bronte Society Museum & Library J A Symington SIGNED

Catalogue Of The Museum & Library: The Bronte Society 

compiled by J Alex Symington

Pub. The Bronte Society, Haworth, Yorkshire 1927

First edition.

Softback.

200 pages profusely illustrated with 67 illustrations and 3 maps.

An authoritative catalogue of items in the Bronte Society museum and library at Haworth, Yorkshire. Details of manuscripts, letters, and works of Patrick, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Bronte. 

Signed & dedicated by Symington to Robert McLeaman.

John Alexander Symington (1887–1961) was appointed Lord Brotherton’s personal librarian in 1923. He organized, collected for, and oversaw the private library of Lord Brotherton, and then became the Keeper of the Collection at Leeds University Library, where all of Lord Brotherton’s materials were donated. While at the Library he continued to curate the vast collection, until 1938 when he was dismissed after a corruption scandal.

Good+ condition, academic society ownership stamps present.