Finding Aid for the Swan Press Records, 1924-1930
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
© 1999
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Finding Aid for the Swan Press Records, 1924-1930
Collection number: 750
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, January 1962
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, November 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Swan Press Records,
Date (inclusive): 1924-1930
Collection number: 750
Creator:
Swan Press
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Swan Press was organized by the firm Sign of the Swan, and operated as a private press in London and Leeds, England. The collection
consists of correspondence, proofs, papers, booklets, pamphlets, and the Swan edition of
Cleopatra.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
G.F. Sims, purchase, 1961.
[Identification of item], Swan Press Records (Collection 750). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233843
Swan Press was organized by the firm Sign of the Swan, and operated as a private press in London and Leeds, England.
Collection consists of correspondence, proofs, papers, booklets, and pamphlets. Includes letters to and from printer Sydney
Matthewman, editor J.A. Symington, and from Herbert Read, as well as correspondence relating to the copyright to Cleopatra
by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Also includes the Swan edition of
Cleopatra, and 55 booklets and pamphlets published or printed by this private press.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Swan Press--Archives.
Private presses--England--Archival resources.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Swan Press. Leeds, England. 1924-1930
Physical Description: (1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Collection of correspondence, ephemera, and 55 booklets and pamphlets printed by this private press.
Includes letters to and from the printer, Sydney Matthewman, the editor, J.A. Symington; and from Herbert Read, as well as
correspondence
re copyright to Swinburne's
Cleopatra.