A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM RECORDING THE OCCASION OF HE CEREMONY TO MARK THE RETIREMENT OF SIR BRYNMOR JONES ON THE 30th JUNE 1972; WITH TWO OF THE GIFTS PRESENTED TO JONES AT THE CEREMONY: A FRAMED HAND-COLOURED MAP BY WENCESLAUS HOLLAR OF HULL (c. 1642) AND A COPY OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, EAST RIDING VOL. 1.

Large spiral-bound folio (c. 40 x 30 cm). Unique copy. Stiff black card covers with a black paper label lettered in white affixed to the lower right corner. An additional label affixed to the verso notes that the volume was "Produced by the University Photographic Service". The album itself contains six black card sheets, the verso of each with a mounted photograph taken at the ceremony to mark the retirement of Sir Brynmor Jones on the 30th June 1972. Also included are two of the gifts presented to Jones at the ceremony and shown in the photographs. 1. A coloured print of Wenceslaus Hollar's famous map of Hull (c. 1642) mounted behind glass on cream card in an angled inset oak frame. The cream paper label affixed to the rear reads: "Wenzel Hollar: Kyngeston upon Hull, 1640. Presented to Sir Brynmor Jones on his retirement by members of the University of Hull associated with the Brynmor Jones Library". Hollar (1607–1677) was a Czech artist brought to England by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel in 1636. The map was probably produced in 1642 at the time of the siege of Hull by Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War. A photograph of Philip Larkin presenting the map to Jones is included in the album. 2. The Victoria History of the County of York East Riding Vol. 1: Published for the University of London Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the neatly price-clipped near fine dustwrapper, a touch toned. With a bookplate affixed to the front pastedown stating that the volume was "presented to Sir Brynmor Jones Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull 1956-1972 on his retirement by present and past members of the University associated with the Brynmor Jones Library"

Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.