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Lake District Anthologies

Ashley P. Abraham    Poems of Lakeland   n.d.
William Andrews North Country poets (with biographies)  1888
Charlotte Mason College Cumbria poems, No 1   1975
  No 2   n.d.
  No 3 n.d.
  No 4 n.d.
  Grope 1972
  Grope again (ed by M.Smith & N.Dowson) n.d.
  Grope 3 (ed by M.Smith &N.Dowson) n.d.
  Grope 4 (ed by M.Smith & N.Dowson) n.d.
  Grope 5 (ed by M.Smith ) n.d.
E.R.Denwood (ed)       Poets of Cockermouth and district  1934
 C.Armstrong Gibbs Lakeland limericks   1942
Sidney Gilpin Songs and ballads of Cumberland and The Lake Country    1874
Walter & Clara Jerrold (eds)  Cumberland in prose and verse        1930
Norman Nicholson   The Lake District, an anthology  1977
G.S.Sandilands

The Lakes; an anthology of Lakeland life and landscape     

1947
  2nd ed         1948
Daniel Stuart (ed)  Letters from the Lake Poets   1889
B.L.Thompson (ed) Prose of Lakeland  1954

  Books about Beatrix Potter held in the Armitt Library

BATTRICK, Elizabeth       Real world of Beatrix  Potter.   1987
BARTLETT, Wynne & WHALLEY, Joyce Irene   Beatrix Potters Derwentwater 1988
COATES, Henry  A Perthshire naturalist, 1923
COLLINS, David R     The country artist 1989
DAVIES, Hunter Beatrix Potter’s Lakeland - Photographs by Cressida Pemberton-Pigott 1988
DENYER, Susan  Beatrix Potter; at home in the Lake District.  2000
HEELIS, John The tale of Mrs. William Heelis 1993
  Revised edition 1999
HOBBS, Anne Stevenson Beatrix Potter’s art 1989
HOBBS, Anne Stevenson & WHALLEY, Joyce Irene comps Beatrix Potter, the V&A collection 1985
HUTCHINGS, Margaret   Toys from the tales of Beatrix Potter. 1973
JAY, Eileen et al    A Victorian naturalist: Beatrix Potter’s drawings from the Armitt collection.  1992
   Japanese edition, Fukinkan Shoten 1999
JAY, Eileen   Beatrix Potter’s Manchester roots 1993
KING, Arthur & STUART, A.F The House of Warne  1965
LANE, Margaret   The tale of Beatrix Potter 1946
  Rev. ed.        1968
LINDER, Leslie A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter 1971
LINDER, Leslie ed     The journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881-1897 1966
MacDONALD, Ruth K.   Beatrix Potter 1986
MITCHELL, W.R.     Beatrix Potter remembered   1987
MOORE, Anne Carroll   The art of Beatrix Potter 1955
MORSE, Jane Cavell ed    Beatrix Potter’s Americans. Horn Book,  1982
NATIONAL TRUST    Hill Top, Sawrey,    1947
POTTER, Beatrix            Les Champignons 1996
POTTER, Beatrix  Beatrix Potter’s Nursery Rhyme book 1984
ROLLAND, Deborah  Beatrix Potter in Scotland.  1981
TAYLOR, Judy      “So I shall tell you a story…”      1993
TAYLOR, Judy Beatrix Potter, artist, storyteller and countrywoman,   1986
  New edition 1996
 TAYLOR, Judy  A letter from Peter rabbit,   (in Japanese)    1990
TAYLOR, Judy   Beatrix potter and Hawkshead. 1988
TAYLOR, Judy      Letters to children from Beatrix potter. 1992
TAYLOR, Judy et al   Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943, the artist and her world. 1987
Publications by The Beatrix Potter Society    
Newsletter, 1980-    
Conference proceedings:-   Beatrix Potter Studies , 1,   1984
  Beatrix Potter Studies, 2,  1986
  Beatrix Potter Studies , 3, 1988
  Beatrix Potter before Peter Rabbit, 4,   1990
  Beatrix Potter and Mrs. Heelis, 5,   1992
  Beatrix Potter’s little books,6,  1994
  Beatrix Potter’s attitudes and enthusiasms, 7,  1996
  Beatrix Potter and the Lake District, 8,   1998
  Beatrix Potter as writer and illustrator, 9,  2000
PARKER, Audrey   Cottage and farmhouse detail in Beatrix Potter’s Lake District. 1993
POTTER, Beatrix & RAWNSLEYHardwicke  Peter Rabbit’s other tale. 1989
   A fascinating aquaintance.    1995
TAYLOR, Judy Beatrix potter, a holiday diary.  1996
TAYLOR, Judy ed       The Choyce letters, 1916-1943.  1994
TUCKER, Nicholas  Peter Rabbit and the child psychologist. 1989
WHALLEY, Irene comp   A Beatrix Potter photograph album. 1993
WERNER, Marion & PEARSON, Richard Near Sawrey, an illustrated map and descriptive text.  1999
Periodical articles :    
Chapman, S.T.  the other Beatrix Potter Westmorland Gazette, Oct 10th 1986
GARDINER, B.G. Beatrix Potter’s fossils and her interest in geology. The Linean, 16 (1), Jan 2000
GOING, William T.  Beatrix Potter, Peter rabbit and pre-Raphealitism. Journal of Pre-raphaelite Studies. 6(1) Nov. 1985
GOLDEN, Catherine Beatrix Potter, naturalist artist. Women’s Art Journal. 11 (1) Spring/Summer 1990
NOBLE, Mary Beatrix potter, mycologist and biorecorder.  Scottish Wildlife 17 (3) Sept  1981
NOBLE, Mary Beatrix Potter, naturalist and mycologist and Charlie MacIntosh, the Perthshire Naturalist. Notes, RBG. Edinburgh, 44 (3), 607-627 1987
PECK, Robert McCracken  Beatrix Potter, scientific illustrator.  Antiques, cxlix (60 June  1996
WATLING, Roy Helen Beatrix PotterThe Linean, 16 (1), Jan 2000
Catalogues:-    
ABBOT HALL ART GALLERY The art of Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 n.d.
ELLINGHAM, L. & S. Beatrix Potter; sale catalogue of books and collectables.    1996
FRIENDS OF GORSE HILL.   The Beatrix Potter connection,       2000
GREY ART GALLERY AND STUDY CENTER, New York Peter Rabbit and other tales; art from the world of Beatrix Potter.           1977
HOBBS, Anne Stevenson.  The Linder collection of the works and drawings of Beatrix Potter.  1996
LIGHTNER, Karen J.   Beatrix Potter; a guide to the collection of the Rare Book department of the Free Library of Philadelphia,   1992
LINDER, L. Beatrix Potter’s papers at Hill Top. 1954
  WORLD of BEATRIX POTTER, a  souvenir guidebook. 1993
KENNEDY, Caroline The Beatrix Potter Gardener’s Year Book  1991
  The Beatrix Potter Engagement Diary 1992
In addition the Armitt Library holds copies of Beatrix Potter’s little books and of The Fairy Caravan, with a variety of publication dates
The Armitt Library holds some manuscript letters by Beatrix Potter and an interesting collection of photocopies of letters between Beatrix Potter and Charlie McIntosh

 Coleridge at the Armitt.

The Armitt has a somewhat random collection of Coleridge’s own works, mostly contained in editions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has no volumes of the important and comprehensive Bollingen series, The Collected Works, which is being published by Princeton University Press and Routledge.
Poetical works:
The Armitt’s holdings include: E.H. Coleridge’s authoritative edition, Complete Poetical Works, 2 vols., 1912: Poetical Works, ed. by J.D. Campbell, 1837, 1907 reprint: The Poems, ed. by Derwent and Sara Coleridge, 1854 edition: and the Lansdowne edition of 1890, The Poetical works, reprinted from early editions with the original illustrations.
Other works:
Biographia Literaria: the Armitt has George Watson’s edition, 1965, reprint 1977, and George Bell’s 1889 reprint of the original edition of 1817. Other holdings include The Friend, ed. H.N.Coleridge, 3 vols, 1837, Aids to Reflection, 2nd. Ed. 1831 and an edition edited by Derwent Coleridge, 1854, On the Constitution of the Church and State, 1828, ed. J.Barral, 1972.
Posthumous Collections:
The Armitt’s main holdings are: Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge, ed. H.N.Coleridge, 2nd ed. 1836, new ed. 1874: Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit, ed H.N. Coleridge, 1840 (published by Pickering), 1971 (published by the Scolar Press); Literary Remains, Quarterly Review, 1837 (taken from H.N. Coleridge’s edition, 1836); Table Talk and Omniana, with notes by C. Patmore, 1917; Shakespearean Criticism, ed. T.M.Raysor, 2 vols, 1930.
The Armitt has no copies of Kathleen Coburn’s great edition of Coleridge’s Notebooks, 3 double volumes (text and notes), 1957-1973. Volume 1 (1794-1804) contains, among a mass of wide ranging observations, many references to Coleridge’s life and his surroundings at Greta Hall, Keswick.
Biographical Works:
The Armitt’s holdings include; Richard Holmes’ excellent modern biographies, Coleridge; Early Visions, 1989 and Coleridge; Darker Reflectons, 1998; Molly Lefebure’s expert study, A Bondage of Opium, 1974, and L. Hanson’s Life: the early years, 1938. Works by writers who knew Coleridge include: Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, 2 vols., 1837 and Reminiscences (of Coleridge and Southey), 1848; James Gillman, Life, Vol. 1 (unfinished), 1838; and De Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poets, 1836.
Correspondence:
The Armitt’s main holdings are: Letters, ed. E.H. Coleridge, 2 vols,1895, and Collected Letters, ed E.L. Griggs, vols 1 and 2, 1956, of a series of 6 volumes, 1956-1971.
Criticism:
The Armitt’s holdings are relatively small. They include; I.A. Richards, Coleridge on Imagination, 1934: K. Coburn, The Self Conscious Imagination, a study of Coleridge’s Notebooks, three lectures, 1974: and Alethea Haytor, Opium and  the Romantic Imagination, 1968.
Topographically Important Works:
The Armitt has Coleridge walks the fells, by Alan Hankinson, Cumbrian author, mountaineer and journalist, 1991. This is a fascinating account,  bringing together past and present, of the author’s walk in 1989 in which he retraced Coleridge’s nine day walk of 1802 among the Lakeland valleys and high fells.
Miscellaneous:
T.J. Wise, Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of S.T. Coleridge, 1913, Walter B. Crawford, An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship, the Armitt has volume 3, 1996, of this comprehensive 3-volume compilation.
Family:
Hartley Coleridge: The Armitt’s holdings of works by Hartley include: Poems, with a memoir by his brother, 2 vols, 1851; New Poems, with selections of his published poetry, ed. E.L. Griggs, 1942; Biographia Borealis, [1833], and the same work reissued as Lives of Northern Worthies, 3 vols,  1852. The Armitt also has Letters, ed. by G.E. Griggs and E.L. Griggs, 1936; Hartley Coleridge: his life and work, by E.L. Griggs, 1929;  Hartley Coleridge: Poet’s son and Poet, by H. Hartman, 1931,and A Poet’s Children: Hartley and Sara Coleridge, by E.A. Towle, 1912.
Sara Coleridge: In addition to the work  just cited, the Armitt has Memoir and Letters, ed. E. Coleridge, 2 vols, 1873, and A Passionate Sisterhood, by Kathleen Jones, 1997, featuring the woman members of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey households.

The Armitt Natural History Collection - Fungi.

BECKER, Georges  Champignons 1987
  [Introduction with line drawings, identification guide with coloured illustrations. In French.]  
BOLTON, James An history of  fungusses growing about Halifax; the whole being a recital of FACTS, the result of more than twenty years observations.  1788
  In 3 vols, bound as 2. [Copiously illustrated with hand coloured plates.]  
COOKE, M.C. Edible and poisonous mushrooms; what to eat and what to avoid.     1894
  [A pocket book, with colour plates.]  
COOKE, M.C. Handbook of British fungi, 2 vols. [Coloured frontispiece, and line drawings.] 1871
COOKE, M.C.  llustrations of British fungi, 2 vols.      1881
  “To serve as an atlas to the Handbook of British Fungi”. [A collection of coloured plates, with index.]  
COOKE, M.C. Introduction to the study of fungi: their organography, classification and distribution.  
   For the use of collectors.  [Bequeathed to the Armitt by Mrs. Heelis, with a short note and marginalia, in her writing.] 1895
COOKE, M.C. Rust, smut, mildew and mould; an introduction to the study of microscopic fungi. 1872
FINDLAY, W.P.K. Wayside and woodland fungi.   [With colour illustrations by Beatrix Potter, and others, annotated to show which originals are held at the Armitt.] 1967
JORDAN, Michael Mushroom magic.  [A general book on the history, use and misuse of mushrooms, illustrated with coloured photographs.] 1989
LINCOFF, Gary H. The Audubon Society field Guide to North American mushrooms. [A field guide with coloured photographs and short, detailed notes.] 1981
LUCAS, Suzanne In praise of toadstools With an introduction by Roy Watling.[Reproductions of large paintings of fungi, in their natural habitat.] 1992
MASSEE, George British fungi; with a chapter on lichens.    [A systematic study with many colour plates.] n.d.
MASSEE, George  British fungus-flora: a classified text-book of mycology. 4 vols. [A detailed flora, with some line-drawings.] 1892
MASSEE, George Text-book of fungi; including morphology, physiology, pathology, classification, etc. [Illustrated with line drawings.] Sophia Armitt’s copy. 1906
PACIONI, Giovanni The MacDonald encyclopaedia of mushrooms and toadstools. English translation  [A field guide, illustrated with coloured photographs.] 1985
POTTER, Beatrix Les champignons. With an introduction by Anne Stevenson Hobbs. [Reproductions of about 50 of Beatrix Potters fungi paintings, original size. Text in French.] 1996
RAMSBOTTOM, John Edible fungi.   [A short guide, with colour plates.] 1943
RAMSBOTTOM, J.   A handbook of the larger British fungi.  [A flora, illustrated with line drawings.] 1923
RAMSBOTTOM, John Mushrooms and toadstools; a study of the activities of fungi. [A traditional New Naturalist guide to fungi and their habitat, with coloured and black and white illustrations.] 1953
SEYMOUR, Jacqueline Mushrooms and toadstools.   [A photographic guide with some text.] 1978
SMITH, Worthington G. Guide to Sowerby’s models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History).  [A flora, with line drawings.] 1893
STEVENSON, John The fungi of Scotland and their geographical distribution. [A location and identification guide, not illustrated.  With handwritten note by Mary Noble and copy of a letter to Stevenson.] 1877
SWANTON, E.W.   Fungi and how to know them.  [With coloured and black and white illustrations.] 1909
WATLING, Roy & SEAWARD, Mark R.D. James Bolton; mycological pioneer.  Archives of Natural History 10 (1) 89-110 1981

The Armitt Natural History Collection - Gardens.

AMHERST,Hon.Alicia A history of gardening in England.2nd.ed. [Includes a bibliography  and a list of  garden writers. Illustrated with photographs and plates.] Sophia Armitt’s copy. 1896
Austin, Alfred  The garden that I love. [an illustrated edition of the book first published in 1894.] 1905
BATEY, Mavis Oxford gardens; the university’s influence on garden history. Well illustrated.] 1982
Bright, Henry A.  A year in a Lancashire garden. [A monthly diary of plants and wild life] 1891
COATES, Peter Great gardens of Britain. [Lavishly illustrated.] 1967
Earle, Alice Morse  Old time gardens, newly set forth.   [Traditional English gardens, in North    America; illustrated with black and white photographs.] 1901
Earle, Mrs.C.W.  More pot-pourri from a Surrey garden. [A monthly diary, with wide ranging comments, based on the garden.] 1900
  Garden History; the journal of garden history. 24 (1) Summer. Essays in honour of Mavis Batey, President of the Garden History Society, presented in celebration of her 75th birthday. 1996
Jekyll, Gertrude Home and garden.  [A guide to planting, illustrated with black and white photographs.] 1900
JEKYLL, Gertrude Wall and water gardens.   [A guide to planting, illustrated with black and white photographs.] n.d.
JEKYLL, Gertrude  Wood and garden.  [A plant guide, written as a monthly diary, illustrated with black and white photographs.] 1899
HARWOOD, W.S. New creations in plant life; an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2nd.ed. [Illustrated with black and white photographs.] 1912
JOHNSON, George W The gardener’s dictionary. [Illustrated with some line drawings.] 1872
SMEE, Alfred My garden, its plan and culture; together  A general description of its geology, botany and natural history. [A wide ranging guide, illustrated with line drawings and engravings.] 1872
WESTELL, W.Percival The natural history of the garden. [Illustrated with black and white photographs and coloured drawings, including “The garden that I love” as frontispiece.] 1920
WRIGHT, Walter P.  Beautiful gardens; how to make and maintain them.  n.d.
WRIGHT, Walter P.  The perfect garden; how to keep it beautiful and fruitful. [Illustrated with black and white photographs, colour plates and line drawings.] 1908

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