Rosenbach Museum and Library

I ran across a neat post over on Travel Between the Pages and just have to share as it’s about Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach who is well known among folks who collect books about books.

I count myself fortunate to have a couple of Rosenbach’s books on my shelf. He was a prolific writer, collector and rare book dealer from Philadelphia and there’s a museum! I had no idea.

The photos over on the post solidified the fact that this is a place to visit when next in the area. Basically, it’s an old townhouse from the early 1900’s that now houses the personal book collection of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach as well as his brother Phillip’s personal library as well.

Rosenbach lots of articles about being an antique book dealer. Those essays were collected and published in two books: Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile and A Book Hunter’s Holiday: Adventures with Books and Manuscripts.

Rosenbach also wrote one book of fiction. It came out in 1917 and is titled The Unpublishable Memoirs. It has eleven storied about a book collector who tricks the wealthy folks out of their rare books. I haven’t read this one, but you can grab a PDF ebook of it over on the Gutenberg Project site.

I will stop here and just let you click over to Travel Between the Pages and check it out for yourself.