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News: Harry Price Library of Magical Literature may be sold
By Psyche | July 28, 2008
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Based at the University of London, The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature is under threat due to budget cuts to the university’s grant for its specialist library.
John Fielden, who heads Chems, the consultancy carrying out the review, admits that selling off collections including Price’s is under consideration. Other options include splitting up the library to free up space for renting, or closing it down altogether.
- Independent.co.uk, “Magical library may vanish“
The collection contains some 13,000 items and as such is the largest of its kind in Britain. It includes letters between Price and the illusionist Houdini, correspondence between Price and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum dating from 1486, and numerous other rare books, pamphlets, and photographs.
“I don’t think people realise how important this collection is or how broad it is,” said Price’s most recent biographer, Richard Morris. “It contains a huge amount of social history from the early 17th century through to the mid-20th, and all under one roof. There is nothing like it in the entire world. It should be more highly valued by researchers, academics and social historians.”
For examples of the image and photographs in the collection, see Prints-Online.com which displays 51 images from the collection - including several commissioned by Aleister Crowley for the A.’.A.’.
The article on The Independent states that students are lobbying to their colleges for financial contributions, but if funding isn’t found the collection may be broken up and sold, and much of the information would be lost to the public.
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