FOUR OAKS FARM Donald and Mary Hyde 1967 Samuel Johnson Bibliophile Collection

Description: FOUR OAKS FARM Donald and Mary Hyde 1967 Samuel Johnson Bibliophile Collection POB#49338 TITLE: Four Oaks Farm AUTHOR: Gabriel Austin; Edith Goodkind Rosenwald PUBLISHER: Somerville, New Jersey: Printed by Clarke & Way at Thistle Press DATE: 1967DESCRIPTION: 113 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 25 cm. CONDITION NOTES: FINE but EX-LIBRARYBINDING: Black cloth backstrip over grey boards..Essays on the history of Four Oaks Farm owned by Donald and Mary Hyde.. Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles, Viscountess Eccles (8 July 1912 – 26 August 2003) was a book collector and author. She was renowned for establishing one of the biggest private collections of 18th century literature with her first husband, Donald Hyde (1909-1966). This includes works from Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. She also created an Oscar Wilde Collection which was bequeathed to the British Library in 2003. Her second marriage (in 1984) was to the British peer, David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, with whom she co-founded the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in 1992. . In 1939 she married Donald Hyde, a New York City lawyer. The couple bought Samuel Johnson's silver teapot in 1941 and threw a tea party in its honour. Over the next 25 years, they became avid collectors of Johnson's belongings, including hundreds of his letters, several of his diaries and a collection of his poems. Mary Hyde — as she was then known—bought Four Oaks Farm in Somerville, New Jersey in 1943. Here they bought up surrounding land and added a library to the property, filling the house with their Samuel Johnson collection. Hyde also published The Thrales of Streatham Park in honour of Mrs Thrale who had previously collected many of Johnson's belongings. During the following years, Hyde became well acquainted with many influential figures, including business tycoons, politicians and English aristocrats. Among them was businessman Robert Borthwick Adam, from whom she purchased a portion of her collection. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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