Leon Kashnor Collection

Period 1627-1832
Total size   0.15 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Together with his brother D. Kashnor, Leon Kashnor was the owner of the Museum Book Store in London specializing in social and economic history; he was among the first booksellers to gather a large collection around some movement or person, before selling it as a whole; in the course of forty years he built up and sold several collections of unique material relating to British social and economic (and political) history from the seventeenth century on; a collection of this kind, including the workers' and socialist movement, was acquired by the IISH in 1937.

Content

Some volumes from the Kashnor collection, consisting of a handwritten copy of a manuscript, belonging to William Wright, of parliamentary proceedings in the reign of King Charles the First 1627-1628; some 300 tracts mainly on monetary matters, taxes and duties, on trades, shipping, trade c. 1693-1698 and n.d.; a handwritten journal of the meetings of the Scottish and English commissioners appointed to negotiate a union between the nations of Scotland and England 1702-1703 and articles agreed upon by the commissioners n.d.; accounts of revenue, Ireland 1729/1731-1733/1735 and a volume containing The Political Magazine September 1831-June 1832, bound together with a letter by William Carpenter to John Epps 1832. NB. The larger part of the Kashnor collection, consisting of printed material incorporated in the IISH library, has been described in: Huub Sanders `Books and pamphlets on British social and economic subjects (ca. 1650-1880) at the IISH Amsterdam' 1988.

Arrangement

The larger part of the Kashnor collection, consisting of printed material, has been incorporated in the IISH library and described in Huub Sanders, 'Books and pamphlets on British social and economic subjects (ca. 1650-1880) at the IISH Amsterdam', IISH Working Paper (Amsterdam 1988); unfortunately details on the whereabouts of the 1.500 manuscripts by C. Townshend mentioned in Maria Huninks book are missing; this collection consists of some volumes from the IISH Kashnor collection, mainly containing handwritten documents and leaflets.

Related material

Another sizeable Kashnor Collection is at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.