Dear Marilyn (and others contemplating similar
transfers):
I would suggest that you do not transfer the
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, at least those up to about 1920, to open
stacks.
Many of these contain original etchings, drypoints
and lithographs by well-known artists, including Camille Pissarro, Anders Zorn,
Paul Helleu, John Marin, Joseph Pennell, Renoir, Albert Besnard, and
others. These would disappear in a flash and end up in an E-Bay auction
commanding several hundred dollars each. Although they are not signed,
many of these still have auction records. Beware. I would also
suggest to those librarians who have issues or runs of Camera Notes, Camera Work
and even late 19th century photographic journals such as Photographic Times, to
place them beyond the reach of clippers, if they not already been stripped of
their photogravures, which dealers for the past twenty years have regrettably
been marketing as if they were original prints.
Raymond
Smith / R.W. Smith Bookseller
New Haven,
Ct.