United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.099831827/1880Historical works made up the majority of the books privately printed by George Wymberley Jones De Renne. He called four of his publications the "Wormsloe Quartos" in honor of his family's ancestral estate.Image of a painted portrait of George Wymberley Jones De Renne. Photograph of Wymberley Jones De Renne. He wears a suit and vest. He faces forward. The eldest son of Mary Nuttall and George Wymberly Jones De Renne, Wymberley Jones De Renne became a noted collector of historical works, Georgia governmental and institutional publications, legal codes, digests, session laws, maps, pamphlets, and newspapers.Born into one of Georgia's oldest and wealthiest families as George Frederick Tilghman Jones, George Wymberley Jones (G.W.J.) De Renne legally changed his name in 1866. Though notably proud of his Jones forebears, De Renne chose a new surname that would provide him privacy and distinctiveness at home and abroad. Distinguished as a bibliophile and historian before he reached twenty-one, De Renne purchased the 1,300-plus volumes of his antebellum library between 1844 and 1861. A manuscript catalog of his books (most of which were destroyed or plundered during the Civil War) shows De Renne's scholarly tastes and varied interests. His section devoted to Georgia history was by 1847 considered superior to all other such private collections. After the Civil War, De Renne assembled another noteworthy Georgia history library.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/de-renne-familyForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/de-renne-familyForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaHistorians--Georgia--SavannahCollectors and collecting--Georgia--SavannahBook collectors--Georgia--SavannahAuthors, American--Georgia--SavannahGeorge Wymberley Jones De RenneStillImage