Crawford Library

[3] Tiffany's library was particularly strong on United States philatelic journals and he was calculated to have 97% of everything published on American philately by the time of his death, including dealer's price lists, society records and even stamp related music.

The Tiffany Library was acquired for Crawford by Charles J. Phillips, then managing director of Stanley Gibbons, who viewed it while travelling in America.

The library consisted of 909 bound volumes and 136 unbound as well as an extensive card index to its contents which was valuable in itself.

[5] After the purchase of the Tiffany Library, Crawford employed Edward Denny Bacon as curator of the collection.

[1] In 1911, a catalogue of the library by Edward Denny Bacon was published by the Aberdeen University Press under the title Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Vol VII: A Bibliography of the Writings General, Special and Periodical Forming the Literature of Philately and in 1911 the rights to the work were assigned to the Philatelic Literature Society (PLS).

In 1985 a major project started to microfilm the library as many of the works were found to have deteriorated with age.