Carrie Griffin, Mary O'Connell
This is the home of research into the the antiquarian book-collector, amateur printer, and farmer Charles Clark (1806-1880) of Great Totham Hall, and Heybridge, Essex. We are two book historians who are developing a research project on Clark and on his bookish and literary activities.
Although Charles Clark is a nineteenth-century figure, his passion is printing in blackletter and in the old style, and printing and collecting tracts and books from the medieval and early modern period.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Charles Clark Book collecting John Russell Smith Essex books Carrie Griffin Mary O'Connell Old Compton Street Printing History Victorian Literature Archive Great Totham London
Letter, 18th April 1840: to John Russell Smith
16 April 2020
Great Totham Hall near Witham April 18th 1840 Dr Sir, Just as it always is! I now find that I shall not be able to send you the promised parcel of “Bokes” for a fortnight...
‘Smal books for the setting forth of Gods glory’
7 April 2020
Jesus College Libraries Andrewes’ name in an acrostic poem and as an anagram: Fellows’ Library H.13.41(8) (© Jesus College, Oxford) This unassuming pocket-sized...
The Limits of the Archive, 2013
18 February 2020
Charles Clark: UK Pun Champion, 185
27 August 2015
For the past 8 years, there has been an award for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This year, the prize went to Darren Walsh for his one liner “I just...