Book Collection Maurice Bell Coll. - Bell (Maurice) Collection

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Reference code

Maurice Bell Coll.

Title

Bell (Maurice) Collection

Date(s)

  • 1773 - 1941 (Creation)

Level of description

Book Collection

Extent and medium

c.320 books + 1 pamphlet box

Context area

Name of creator

(1871-1944)

Biographical history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Brought together from books that were previously in the Library's general holdings. The books had been presented to the Library, in the 1930s, by Maurice Bell (brother of Gertrude).

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Scope and content

This collection of books was given to the Library by Gertrude Bell's brother Maurice (1871-1944), most of which previously belonged to Sir Hugh and Sir Lowthian Bell (respectively their father and grandfather) who were both industrialists. The collection consists of approximately 500 books and is strongest in economics and industry, particularly coal-mining, railways and chemistry but also including iron, steel, explosives and oyster fisheries.Included are Beckly, H. The bankers' panic: a letter to the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury (1875), Hole, J. The homes of the working classes, with suggestions for their improvement (1866) and works by two prominent women - the writer on science, mathematics and astronomy, Mary Somerville's Physical geography (1858) and one of the leaders of the suffrage movement, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Political economy for beginners (1876).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

No further material is expected to be added to the collection

System of arrangement

Dewey Decimal

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

UK copyright law applies

Language of material

  • English

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Rare Books / Publications

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Description control area

Description identifier

gb186-Maurice Bell Coll.

Institution identifier

gb186

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Status

Draft

Level of detail

Full

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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