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filled with heaps of papers, MSS, books, charters, packages & other things, lying in heaps under your feet, piled upon tables, beds, chairs, ladders &c.&c. and in every room, piles of huge boxes, up to the ceiling, containing the more valuable volumes! It is quite sickening...The windows of the house are never opened, and the close confined air & smell of the paper & MSSis almost unbearable.
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and the relative cheapness of a large amount of vellum material, in particular
English legal documents, many of which owe their survival to Phillipps. He was an assiduous cataloguer who established the Middle Hill Press (Typis Medio-Montanis) in 1822 not only to record his book holdings but also to
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declared this too restrictive and thus made possible the sale of the library which
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Phillipps' book stamp) and also a destroyer of other valuable old books, cutting out pages to stick them in his scrapbook. At least 105 wagon-loads, each drawn by two horses and accompanied by one or two men, were used to move the collection to
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Henrietta Elizabeth Molyneux, daughter of Major-General Thomas Molyneux, in 1819. This was after the death of his father, who had opposed the match because she lacked a
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for £100,000, though this part of the collection was uncatalogued and unexamined. The
Robinsons endeavoured to sell these books through their own published catalogues and a number of
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manuscripts and, when out of funds, borrowed heavily to buy manuscripts, thereby putting his family deep into debt. Phillipps recorded in an early catalogue that his collection
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Phillipps's will stipulated that his books should remain intact at
Thirlestaine House, that no bookseller or stranger should rearrange them and that no
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of Middle Hill in the County of Worcester at the age of 29. The honour was the result of his father-in-law's connections with the
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