Finding Aid for the Philip S. Burns Collection on Aubrey Beardsley
MS.2009.001
Rebecca Fenning
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
©2009
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Philip S. Burns Collection on Aubrey Beardsley
Identifier/Call Number: MS.2009.001
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1990-2001, undated
Abstract: Items related to the Aubrey Beardsley collection assembled by Philip S. Burns, which was sold at auction in 1999.
Physical Location: Clark Library
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Philip S. Burns Collection on Aubrey Beardsley, MS.2009.001, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Phil Burns, 2009.
Scope and Content
The Phil Burns papers at the Clark Library consist of correspondence, catalogs and other papers related to Burns' collection
on Aubrey Beardsley. Letters, receipts, and sales catalogs document his acquisition of items for the already-established collection
during the 1990s and his ultimate sale of the collection at Sotheby's auction in 1999.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Collectors and collecting -- United States -- 20th century
Letters -- United States -- 20th century
Sales catalogs -- 20th century
box 1, Folder 1
Archeus Fine Art correspondence
1994-1996
box 1, Folder 2
I.D. Edrich correspondence
1997-1998
box 1, Folder 3
Eighteen Nineties Society journals and correspondence
1997-1998, 2000
Scope and Contents note
Includes the April 2000 issue of Keynote, which talks about the Beardsley sale at Sotheby's.
box 1, Folder 4
Maggs Brothers correspondence re: Marans sale at Christies
1996
Scope and Contents note
Includes catalog for Marans sale.
box 1, Folder 5
Miscellaneous correspondence
1996-1998
box 1, Folder 6-7
Sotheby's sale correspondence
1997-2000
General Physical Description note: 2 folders
box 1, Folder 8
18 November 1999 Sotheby's sale catalog inscribed by Rodney Engen
1999
box 1, Folder 9
18 November 1999 Sotheby's sale catalog and PB's handwritten inventories
1999, undated
box 1, Folder 10
11 and 18 May 2000 Sotheby's sale catalog
2000
box 1, Folder 11
PB handwritten inventory
undated
box 1, Folder 12
PB typed inventory with corrections
undated
box 1, Folder 13
1999 Beardsley exhibition at Princeton University
1999
box 1, Folder 15
Modern Beardsley ephemera
undated
box 1, Folder 16
5 October 1995 Christie's poster sale catalog
1995
box 1, Folder 17
24 October 1995 Phillips print and poster sale catalog
1995
box 1, Folder 18
Photographs of PB with Beardsley collection
1990
