Finding Aid for the Phil Burns Papers 1990-2001,
undated
Processed by Rebecca Fenning.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California, Los Angeles
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Phil Burns Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1990-2001, undated
Collection number: MS.2009.001
Creator: Burns, Philip
S.
Extent:
1 box (.5 linear feet)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Items related to the Aubrey Beardsley
collection assembled by Phil Burns, which was sold at
auction in 1999.
Physical location: Clark Library
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Phil Burns Papers, MS.2009.001, William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Phil Burns, 2009.
Scope and Content
The Phil Burns papers at the Clark Library consist of correspondence,
catalogs and other papers related to Burns' Aubrey Beardsley collection.
Letters, receipts, and sales catalogs document his acquisition of items
for the already-established collection during the 1990s and his ultimate
sale of the collection at Sotheby's auction in 1999.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Beardsley,
Aubrey, 1872-1898
Collectors and
collecting
Genres and Forms
Letters
Sales catalogs
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
Archeus Fine Art correspondence
1994-1996
Box 1, Folder 2
I.D. Edrich correspondence
1997-1998
Box 1, Folder 3
Eighteen Nineties Society journals and correspondence
1997-1998,
2000
Scope and Content Note
Includes the April 2000 issue of Keynote, which talks about the
Beardsley sale at Sotheby's.
Box 1, Folder 4
Maggs Brothers correspondence re: Marans sale at
Christies
1996
Scope and Content Note
Includes catalog for Marans sale.
Box 1, Folder 5
Miscellaneous correspondence
1996-1998
Box 1, Folder 6-7
Sotheby's sale correspondence
1997-2000
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 8
18 November 1999 Sotheby's sale catalog inscribed by Rodney
Engen
1999
Box 1, Folder 9
18 November 1999 Sotheby's sale catalog and PB's handwritten
inventories
1999, undated
Box 1, Folder 10
11 and 18 May 2000 Sotheby's sale catalog
2000
Box 1, Folder 11
PB handwritten inventory
undated
Box 1, Folder 12
PB typed inventory with corrections
undated
Box 1, Folder 13
1999 Beardsley exhibition at Princeton University
1999
Box 1, Folder 15
Modern Beardsley ephemera
undated
Box 1, Folder 16
5 October 1995 Christie's poster sale catalog
1995
Box 1, Folder 17
24 October 1995 Phillips print and poster sale
catalog
1995
Box 1, Folder 18
Photographs of PB with Beardsley collection
1990
