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| 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 | ||
| 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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