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p. 53: "Most of the recruits to the staff still came as apprentices, straight from school, undertaking, as Blackwell's first apprentice, F.W. Chaundy, had in 1880, to serve faithfully for five years, not 'to waste the goods of his said Master ... not contract Matrimony within the said Term nor play at Cards or Dice Tables ... haunt Taverns or Playhouses'. The boy Chaundy started to learn 'the Art of a Bookseller' at 3s. 6d. a week, rising to 10s. in the fifth year." |
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1891 The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post Thursday, November 19, 1891 | |
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SOCIALISTS' SOIREE. - On Monday evening a social evening was held in teh Mandlin street Schoolroom by members of the Bristol Socialist Society and their friends. The company numbered about 120. A pro- gramme of music and recitations was successfully performed, Mmes Martin and Ferguson and Messrs August, E.J. Watson, and F.W. Chaundy taking part. After refreshments were served, dancing was indulged in until near midnight. |
| 1911 Oxford illustrated by camera and pen Henry Taunt | |
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An Old Book Shop: 104 High Street
Opposite the new buildings of Brazenose College, just before Oriel Street is reached, at 104 High Street, where the shops stand out into the street, will be found an Old Book Shop, one of the interesting places among the many in Oxford. This has been an old book shop now for something approaching a century, and the Author, when a boy some 60 years ago, worked in it, and learned here some of his book lore. It was an old book shop then, but has been extended much farther back and made three times the size to accommodate the vastly increased number of books. An immense stock of second-hand books will be found, with many remainders, and the proprietor, Mr. F.W. Chaundy, lays himself out to secure scarce books or others required. He is Agent in Oxford for the Medici Prints, and has a number of the older Arundel Society's publications. The variety of stock is very great, and book-lovers and others will find the place a considerable attraction. Among old customers he values the patronage he has received from Messrs. Gladstone, Ruskin, William Morris, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the king of Siam and many others. |
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1921 The Times Friday 21st January 1921 pg 7 col A: | |
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The ninth annual dinner of the International Association of Antiquarian Booksellers was held last night at the Criterion Restaurant. Mr. Albert J.Myers presided, and amongst those present were Mr. Augustine Birrell, Sir Israel Gollanez, Mr. F.W. Chaundy, Mr G. Thorn-Drury, K.C., Miss M. Han- bidge, Mr. and Mrs. H.D.Vincent, Mr. Clement Shorter, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Mr.Foyle, Mr. and Mrs B.D. Maggs, Mr J. Tregaskis, Mr. R.W.P. De Vries (Amsterdam), and Mr. Hertsberger (Am- sterdam). Mr. Birrell, in responding to the toast of "Our Guests." said that when he was in politics he used to send his Hansard to Mr. Hodgson in Chancery-lane, asking the current prices. (Laughter.) Those prices indicated the deep-rooted contempt which every proper antiquarian bookseller had for modern oratory. (Laughter.) |
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1917 Booking Hunting in Oxford Nathan Starr in "The Bookman's Journal & Print Collector, 173 Fleet St., E.C." | |
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'In Oxford's venerable shades one seems to feel the presence of 'scholars of grete wyt', no less the ghosts of mighty bookhunters, who, assuming a modern incarnation, perhaps as the Chaundys or Blackwells, pass on the traditions of bibliomania.' 'Chaundy's, on High Street, opposite St. Mary's ..... deals almost exclusively with second-hand books. Then too, it has built up a clientele whose tastes run (roughly) to either the classics or English literature in general. In many ways it is the most satisfying shop in Oxford. Its air of privacy and unfailing good taste make it a pleasant haven .... and when there all thoughts of official engagements seem to vanish. In the classics as I have intimated, Chaundy is especially strong. Some time ago he procurred the library of the late Dr Daniel, founder of the 'Daniel Press' and Provost of Worcester College. this contained what was probably the most remarkable collection of Aldines in England.... I may say this shop will probably one day be my undoing, for they persist in bringing to my notice magnificent books which I cannot afford, but which I often buy. But I had to close my eyes to an Aldus Aesop and a Beaumont and Fletcher first folio.' 'In addition to his excellent stock of volumes. Chaundy operates an efficient book-reporting service, and few are the works he cannot procure. A long cherished edition, Tennyson's Poems of 1842, was recently found for me at a surprisingly low figure. Moreover he employs a binder capable of excellent work.' |
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1891 The Times Friday 6th November 1891 pg 8 col B: | |
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PERSECUTION of the JEWs in RUSSIA.
FUND for the RELIEF of RUSSIAN-JEWISH FUGI-
TIVES - Contributions to the Fund will be applied by the Russo-
Jewish Committee [which administered the Mansion-house Fund
of 1882] to the relief of persecuted Russian Jews; to diverting them from
overcrowded districts; to assisting their emigration and settlement
in suitable localities;and generally to alleviating the sufferings of
the Jewish victims of Russian persecutions.
Total of Subscriptions advertised to October 16, 1891., £62,803 4s 6d
FOUR LIST of SUBSCRIPTIONS advised to November 3d
..... Per East-end Branch Committee ..... L.F. Chaundy Esq 1 1 0 ..... |
1921 From Leslie Chaundy & Co, 40 Maddox Street, London, W1 "We have lately moved into a ground floor shop at the above address owing to the inconvenience of our Davies Street premises, which were situated on the second floor. Another great disadvantage in our last rooms was the fact that they were so small as to hinder any further expansion of our business.
On decorating our new premises we have kept in mind the special characteristics of the bookseller's business, and we hope that we have gained our end. We mean by this that at 40 Maddox Street the books can be looked at and browsed over in a room which is less like a shop and more like a private library. It is our intention to keep our new establishment in the same state as we would do our own house.
Besides our immediate business of selling what we possess we undertake valuation for probate, etc., agencies for libraries and private buyers, amd commisssions at any of the principal sales." SC Chaundy, British Library
1921 Bibliographies of Modern Authors No. 1 Robert Bridges / compiler Iola A. Williams published: Leslie Chaundy & Co, London, 1921.|
1922 The Times Saturday 29th April 1922 pg 17 col F: | |
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SCIENCE AND LITERATURE The Rede Lecture on "The Victorian Age," by Dean Inge, will be published by the Cam- bridge University Press in book form imme- diately after its delivery before the Cambridge university on May 9. About the same time will be published by Messrs. Leslie Chaundy, Mr. Michael Sadleir's "Excursions in Victorian Bibliography." The author has now been a collector for some years of the first editions of Trollope, Disraeli, Marryat, Wilkie Collins, Charles Read, Whyte Melville, Mrs.Gaskell, and Herman Melville. |
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1948 London Gazette Issue 38335 -25th June 1948 page 10 | |
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Notice ishereby given, pursuant toSection 295 (3) of 19 & 20 Geo. V. ch. 23 (Companies Act, 1929) that, at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, the names of the undermentioned Com- panies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the Companies will be dissolved:- ..... John Mercer & Company (Clitheroe), Limited. L. Chaundy Limited. Lauderdale Residential Club, Limited. ..... |
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p.26: "That first apprentice was F.W. Chaundy, who was once heard to say that he 'saw a good deal of Lewis Carroll at one time', and explained that when he called at his rooms in Christ Church to collect some books shortly after nine one morning, Mr Dodgson was still in his bedroom, whence he emerged clad only in his shirt. He turned his back, and stooped down to gather the books from the floor; his shirt was a 'cutty-sark', it had no tail. Fred Chaundy left Blackwell's when his apprenticeship was over and, after working for William George's Sons in Bristol, came back to Oxford as manager of a shop that George's had acquired in the High Street. Later, he bought this business from them - Blackwell with characteristic generosity lent him £100 to complete the deal - and carried it on as 'Chaundy's' until the early twenties, when he acquired the business of Dulau and Co. in London. He and his son Leslie put new life into this antiquarian bookshop, founded at the end of the eighteenth century and famous for its expertise in botanical books. In 1940 the entire premises and stock were destroyed by an enemy bomb and his son killed. 'In these tragic circumstances it seemed appropriate that Fred Chaundy should be invited to return to the firm in which he was apprenticed; so we acquired the good will of Dulau and the good fortune of having Fred Chaundy under our roof.' He carried on business happily as the Dulau department of Blackwell's until his death in 1947, after sixty seven years in the book trade." |
| 1983 The Times 22nd December 1983: Extract from Bevis Hillier's review of Blackwell's 1879-1979 By A. L. F. Norrington | |
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Occasionally Sir Arthur Norrington rewards one for staying with his dour narrative, by a nice literary anecdote. We learn how Verlaine gave a lecture in Blackwell's, threading his way through "un dedale de chambres regorgeant de livres"; how the assistant Fred Chaundy was privileged to see Lewis Carroll bend down clad only in a "cutty-sark" shirt; and how Hilaire Belloc ended a row with Benjamin Henry by composing him a motto Sumite Castalios nigris de frontibus haustus (From the Black Wells draw ye the Muses' draughts). |