Shelf and ownership marks of selected libraries and collections
absorbed by the Princeton University Library


Ownership mark
Description
Notes
Book label.
Princeton Library Company. Active 1812 - 1833. A subscription library formed by local citizens, the book stock of which was probably divided among the shareholders when the library closed. [Note: The share of B. Olden is in collection C1228.] This book given by Gov. Charles Olden in the late 1870s.

O. Goldsmith. The Works. (1809).

Ink stamp.
American Whig Society. Founded in 1769. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Whig Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s. [Variants]

J. Taylor. Essays in rhyme, on morals and manners (1816).

Book label.
American Whig Society. Founded in 1769. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Whig Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s.

R.L. Stevenson. Familiar studies of men and books (1887).

Ink stamp.
American Whig Society. Founded in 1769. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Whig Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s.

J. M. W. v. d. P. Schwartz. The greater glory (1893).

Book label. With overlay of Richardson class label.
The Cliosophic Society. Founded in 1765. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Clio Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s. [Variants]

R.L. Stevenson. Inland Voyage (1888).

Book label. Ink shelf-mark.
The Cliosophic Society. Founded in 1765. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Clio Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s.

R. Savage. The poetical work. (1802).

Ink stamp. Embossed seal.
The Cliosophic Society. Founded in 1765. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Clio Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s.

J. G. Saxe. The money-king. (1860).

Embossed seal.
The Cliosophic Society. Founded in 1765. A literary, political, and debating society, it kept a library in Clio Hall until the collection was merged into the University Library in the 1890s.

T. B. Macaulay. The Lays of Ancient Rome (1877).

Book label.
G. Musgrave Giger legacy acquired in 1865.

Livy. Libri Historiarum. (London: Valpy, 1828).

Embossed seal.
Amicitia '65. Nassau Hall. Unidentified. Perhaps the seal of a short-lived literary society.

[C. Ashmead]. Fallings From a Lady’s Pen (1849).

Book label.
Musgrave Bequest. From the estate of Prof. G. W. Musgrave in 1882-1883.

W. Shakespeare. The plays and poems (1851).

Book label.
Pierson Civil War Collection. Presented by John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, during ca. 1873 to his death in 1908. In the 1920-30s, books, such as this one, were reclassed in the general literature classifications (Richardson 3000s).

E. J. Gray. The new Yankee Doodle (1868).

Book label.
Ivy Hall Library. Founded in 1872, 'the ladies of Princeton maintain a library of their own, known as the Ivy Hall library' (Hageman, History of Princeton, [1879] 2:412). Operating as late as 1901. [Variants]

J. P. Story. Choisy. A novel.(1872).

Book label.
Ivy Hall Library. Founded in 1872, 'the ladies of Princeton maintain a library of their own, known as the Ivy Hall library' (Hageman, History of Princeton, [1879] 2:412). Operating as late as 1901.

H. B. Stowe. Poganuc people: their loves and lives. (1878).

Book label.
Philadelphian Society. Founded 1825, built Murray Hall in 1879, where it kept a library until until the collection was merged into the University Library in 1917.

J. Keble. The Christian Year (1874).


23 Sept 2005 / Images courtesy of Robert Milevski.