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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France
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Blaise Cendrars
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2014
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Special Collections PQ2605 E55 P7613 2014
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Books
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Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press
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The number of private press and limited edition books in Special Collections continues to grow. This is not only because Special Collections, through the Otakou Press Printer in Residence programme, makes its own limited edition books, but also because these hand-crafted items are good things to buy. Often old texts are rejuvenated in a wonderfully new and creative way. Illustrations are often included, thereby visually enhancing the end-product. One example is the Old Stile Press’s re-configuration of French poet Blaise Cendrars’s <em>La Prose du Transsibérien</em>, a poem about his trip in 1905 on the newly opened Trans-Siberian Express railway. The original 1913 edition – a Modernist masterpiece – was six feet in length, and according to legend, if the entire edition of 150 copies were laid end to end, they would be as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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1827
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De Beer Ec 1827 M
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Books
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London: Septimus Prowett
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‘Dark to light’ mezzotint engraving was probably the most appropriate medium to use to create images of John Milton’s <em>Paradise Lost,</em> the epic poem on the ‘Creation’ and ‘Mankind’s Fall’. Samuel Prowett paid the British artist John Martin (1789-1854) 2000 guineas to produce 24 engravings to complement Milton’s famed text; he received a further 1500 guineas for a second smaller set of 24. The images he created are dramatic. Published in 1827, the two-volume book, and the prints (many sold separately) were a commercial success. This rare edition sits in the <strong>de Beer Collection</strong>, among many other outsized editions such as 16th century herbals, the voyages of Captain Cook, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, and the musical works of Handel. There is variety indeed.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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The Rogue: Or, the Life of Guzman de Alfarache
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Mateo Alemán
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1623
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Shoults Ec 1623 A
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Books
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London: Printed for Edward Blount
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The <strong>Rev. William Arderne Shoults Collection</strong> is not just a collection of ecclesiastical volumes: sermons, church tracts, missals and breviaries, and the history of hymns. It contains books and manuscripts on many other subjects, a somewhat quirky collection on science, travel, philology, classical and modern literature. One such item is Mateo Alemán’s <em>The Rogue</em>, a very early picaresque but moralising novel depicting the life and adventures of Guzman de Alfarache, a street urchin. This is a variant copy of the first English language edition, printed in 1623 for Edward Blount (1562–1632), the London publisher associated with the Jaggards of the First Folio of Shakespeare fame (1623). Like his fellow Spanish countryman Cervantes, Alemán’s book was pirated, yielding very little money for him while alive.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Decoy Doll
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Cleve F. Adams
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1956
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Pulp PS3501 D21735 D42
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Books
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London: Original Novels Foundation
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‘McBride checked into the Lewis & Clark Hotel in Copper Hill so closely behind his quarry that he could smell her perfume.’ So begins <em>Decoy Doll</em>, a formulaic tale by Cleve F. Adams (1895-1949), a prolific pulp writer, who outdid Raymond Chandler with his brooding and corruptible Private Investigator. This title is one of the 900 or so Australian pulp fiction publications that form the <strong>Pulp Fiction Collection</strong> in Special Collections. The covers are often lurid – ‘high-octane’; the titles grab your attention (<em>Nude in a Boat</em>, <em>No Blonde is an Island</em>, or <em>If the Coffin Fits</em>), and the story lines are something else: awkward dialogue, simple plots, and improbable coincidences. There is a lot of ‘cleaning up the streets and righting wrongs’.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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The Puppet Masters
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Robert A. Heinlein
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1954
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Fastier Science Fiction PS3515 E288 P86 1954
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Books
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London: Science Fiction Club
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Robert Heinlein’s <em>The Puppet Masters </em>was originally serialised in <em>Galaxy Science Fiction</em> (September, October, November 1951) and first published in book form the same year. In the story, Heinlein has American agents battling alien slug-like creatures who are able to control minds. Set in 2007, it was written against the paranoiac backdrop of the Cold War and the Red Scare in the United States. This volume is a UK printing of 1954 and is part of the <strong>Science Fiction Collection</strong> in Special Collections.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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[Mammotrectus super Bibliam]
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Johannes Marchesinus
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1476
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De Beer Itb 1476 M
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Books
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[Venice: Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de Frankfordia]
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Part of the collection of books that Willi Fells gave the University Library in 1946 included five incunabula, those books printed before 1501. This colourful well-bound manual for the clergy, printed in Venice in 1476, is one example. It contains etymological and grammatical explanations of difficult words in the Bible, and details on the liturgical hours. The rubrication – colours blue and red – were added by hand.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Books of Hours (manuscript)
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Catholic Church
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c. 1450
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De Beer MS.1
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Manuscripts
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Not published
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All the bound medieval manuscripts in the <strong>de Beer Collection</strong> were gifted to the University Library by Willi Fels. This delicate Italian manuscript is a<em> Book of Hours</em>, a religious work that contains a selection of short Offices, prayers and devotions, and a liturgical calendar. Books of Hours are the most numerous survivors of medieval manuscripts; almost every good household owned one. The text of this mid-fifteenth century (c.1450) work is all hand-written on fine vellum (treated calf skin). The blue and red rubrication is present, and the leaf displayed has a sliver of real gold in one initial.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Orlando Furioso
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Ludovico Ariosto
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c. 1556
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De Beer Itb 1556 A
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Books
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[Venice]: Felice Valgrisi
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In 1946, Willi Fels donated some 400 of his most valuable pre-1801 printed books to the University of Otago. Many of these books carried German or Italian imprints. One work he gave was Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem <em>Orlando Furioso</em> (<em>The Frenzy of Orlando</em>), printed in Venice in 1556. This chivalric romance is set in the time of Charlemagne’s Christian knights warring against the Saracen army. The poem contains 46 cantos and he used <em>ottava rima</em>, the famed ‘abababcc’ rhyming scheme. Not only was the work immensely successful, but this particular edition represents one of the high points of 16th century Italian illustrated books.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Scenes of a Clerical Life
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George Eliot
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c. 1859
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Brasch PR4669 S3 1859
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Books
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons
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Willi Fels did not just concentrate on the classical and the antiquarian. ‘Modern’ works also caught his discerning eye. <em>Scenes of Clerical Life</em> was George Eliot’s first published work of fiction, and the first to contain her famous pseudonym. This stereotyped edition is from a ‘Novels of’ series published by Blackwood and Sons about 1880. It was owned by Fels, and has his signature at the front. Interestingly, this copy was passed on to his grandson Charles Brasch, who was the family genealogist. It contains his annotations and notes.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Willi Fels in Stockholm
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___
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1935
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c/n E6132/3. Hocken Library
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Photographic prints
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Unpublished
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Willi Fels (1858-1946) was a successful Dunedin businessman, attached by kinship to the Hallenstein family. Married to his cousin Sara Elizabeth Hallenstein, he was uncle to Dora, Mary and Esmond de Beer, and grandfather to Charles Brasch. He was managing director of Hallensteins, and of the Drapery and General Importing Company of New Zealand (DIC). Fels was a notable collector, who began collecting stamps and coins as a boy. Collecting fields opened up to him, expanding to Maori and Oceanic artifacts, fire-arms, ceramics, decorative art and ethnographic objects from Tibet, Persia, India, Burma and Japan. He also collected Greek, Roman and English coins. Most of his collections are now visible in the Fels Wing at the Otago Museum (opened in 1930) or at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Books were also his passion. In 1946, he gave the University of Otago Library 400 of his most valuable pre-1801 books, including illuminated manuscripts, incunabula and many German and Italian imprints. This gift formed the nucleus of what was to become the <strong>de Beer Collection</strong>.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Poems and Ballads
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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1866
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Special Collections PR5505 1866
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Books
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London: John Camden Hotten
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Over the years, the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) has gained a reputation for having produced fine metred verse. His life, however, courted controversy and scandal. He was suspended from College (Balliol, Oxford) and seemingly led a life of vice; he liked being flogged. He wrote about topics such as lesbianism, cannibalism, and sado-masochism, and was pigeon-holed into the ‘decadent school’. Swinburne’s <em>Poems and Ballads</em> (1866) was his first collection of work and it contains elements of the above topics. It was popular and controversial. For some reason, Fels collected Swinburne first editions, owning some 18 titles. The plain unpretentious book label in this first Hotten edition records Fels’s gift to the University Library.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan
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Lafcadio Hearn
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c. 1894
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Special Collections DS809 HD885
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Books
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
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Willi Fels travelled a great deal, visiting Europe many times. He also travelled to Japan, and secured a number of artifacts that are now housed in the Otago Museum. Special Collections has a number of works by the Greek-born, American journalist turned Japanophile, Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) that were once owned by Fels. Hearn readily adopted Japanese culture, and on marrying a Samurai’s daughter, he became known as Koizumi Yakumo. Hearn wrote extensively about Japan, with <em>Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan</em> (1894) his first on his adopted country. Perhaps Fels, the connoisseur collector, met Hearn while in Tokyo.
Collectors and collecting
Special Collections
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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William Arderne Shoults
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___
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c. 1880
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Special Collections
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Photographic prints
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___
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The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) was a London-born scholar-clergyman and book collector. In 1888, Bishop Samuel Tarratt Nevill, first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, persuaded Mrs Elizabeth Shoults to gift her husband’s library to New Zealand to form the nucleus of a library for Selwyn College, Dunedin. In 1965, the <strong>Shoults Collection</strong> was placed on permanent loan with the University of Otago Library by the Board of Selwyn College. The collection numbers about 4200 volumes, the majority being pre-1801 imprints. It is rich in history, theology, science and travel, and includes fine examples of Greek and Roman classics, as well as a cache of Middle Eastern books and manuscripts. Among the treasures are 28 incunabula (pre-1501 printed books), including a single volume of a commentary on the Bible by Nicholas de Lyra (1481). It is bound in a scarce Rood and Hunt blind-stamped binding reinforced with fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer. It is the oldest known English binding in New Zealand.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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A Few Plain Words about Meditation (3rd edition) in Practical Tracts
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Edited by A.H. Mackonochie
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1865
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Shoults Eb 1865 S
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Books
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London: Church Printing Co.
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The <strong>Shoults Collection</strong> contains many volumes of small pamphlets bound together and given the generic title ‘Church Tracts’. Shoults was a curate who worked in four slum parishes of London: Walworth, Bunhill Row, Shoreditch, and Lombard Street. He favoured services that were ritualistic, such as a daily Eucharist, incense, altar lights, and colourful vestments. This was all part of a 19th century movement to rejuvenate and revitalise the Church of England. Alexander Heriot Mackonochie (1825-1887) was one of the leading members of the broader Catholic revival, and for carrying out ritualist practices at St Alban’s, Holborn, he was prosecuted and banned from preaching. Here is a third edition copy of his <em>Meditation</em>.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Davide Perseguitato
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Virgilio Malvezzi
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1636
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Shoults Spb 1636 M
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Book covers
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Tortosa: Francisco Martorell
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As expected from an ecclesiast, Shoults collected a number of devotional works such as breviaries and missals, some dating back to the 17th and 18th century. This Spanish printing of <em>Davide Perseguitato</em> by Virgilio Malvezzi (1595–1654), an Italian historian and essayist, not only contains the text of <em>David Persecuted</em>, but also a portion of a 15th century Italian <em>Antiphonal</em>. Here the rubricated vellum fragment has been used for the entire binding. The texts on the front and back covers are chants for Palm Sunday. There are 25 other examples of this fragment recycling in the Shoults Collection.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Description of Malta and Gozo
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George Percy Badger
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1838
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Shoults Ob 1838 B
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Books
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Malta: M. Weiss
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On 1 August 1878, Shoults married Elizabeth Katherine Ogle; he was 39; she was 36. Part of the <strong>Shoults Collection</strong> contains books that were not only owned by her, but also by her father, John Connell Ogle (1813-1871), a landscape and maritime painter. Ogle was a member of the Liverpool Water-colour Society, and former professor of drawing at the University, Corfu, which was the Ionian Academy, established by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766–1827), in 1824. This ‘biography’ on Malta and Gozo, an island of the Maltese archipelago, is by George Percy Badger (1815–1888), an Anglican missionary, whose expertise lay in churches of the East. The book was printed in Malta, and is signed and dated by Ogle, 1839.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Helvetiorum Respublica
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___
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1627
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Shoults La 1627 H
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Books
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[Leiden: Elzevir]
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The Dutch firm of Elzevir was established about 1585. They produced small format editions which have always been collectible. Bibliophiles (booklovers) throughout time have sought out the tallest and freshest copies, known for their elegance of design, neatness, clearness and regularity of type. Indeed, collectors have been known to deny themselves life’s necessaries for the sake of accumulating as many little Elzevirs as possible. Shoults was no different. The <strong>Shoults Collection</strong> contains 105 copies of these editions; a respectable number for any library. Many had engraved title-pages, like this second edition of <em>Helvetiorum Respublica</em> (1627), a reprint of works on Switzerland that initiated from Josias Simmler’s <em>De Republica Helvetiorum</em> (1576).
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Log of Voyage from London to Madras to China to St. Helena to London, 9 November 1779 to 2 November 1781
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<em>Ship York</em>
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1779-1781
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Shoults MS.5
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Books
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Unpublished
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Many book collectors have fields of collecting which are formed either by following an established collecting tradition (first editions), or from personal interest (a liking for the novels of Anthony Trollope). However, there are always one or two items that fall outside the collecting field, often acquired through happenstance, or for some unknown reason. The logbook of the<em> Ship York</em> in the <strong>Shoults Collection</strong> is but one example, obtained outside his collecting fields of religious books, early printed books, and Elzevirs. This East Indiaman vessel made five voyages for the British East India Company between 1773 and 1787. On this particular journey to Madras and China in 1780, she was under command of Captain Arthur Blanshard.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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De modo confitendi & de puritate conscientia
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Matthew of Kraków
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1472
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Shoults Gb 1472 T
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Incunabula
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Speyer: Printer of the Gesta Christi
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In his short life, Shoults was able to collect 28 incunabula, those books printed in Europe before 1501. The books vary in typefaces, style, and quality of printing and binding. Indeed, some are typographical masterpieces; others are downright pedestrian. All but two are in Latin. Although attributed to Thomas Aquinas in the <em>incipit</em> (beginning), <em>De modo confitendi</em> <em>et</em> <em>De puritate conscientiae</em> was penned by Matthew of Kraków (c. 1335–1410), a 14th century scholar-priest. This German printing of both works was done by the mysterious ‘Printer of the Gesta Christi’ in 1472.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Charles Brasch
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Evelyn Page
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1937
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Special Collections, de Beer Gallery
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Painting
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Unpublished
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Charles Orwell Brasch was born in Dunedin on 27 July 1909. He was educated at Waitaki Boys’ High and St John’s College, Oxford. He lived abroad for many years working as a teacher in England, as an archaeologist in Egypt, and as a civil servant in wartime London. He returned to New Zealand in 1946 and a year later founded <em>Landfall</em>, New Zealand’s premier literary magazine. He was a patron of the arts, offering support and encouragement to many artists and writers. He was also a fine poet, producing six volumes of verse. He translated volumes of Russian, German and Indian poetry, and wrote a memoir, published posthumously in 1980 as <em>Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947</em>. He died on 20 May 1973. The <strong>Brasch Collection</strong> of 7,500 volumes is housed at Special Collections, University of Otago Library.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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The Land and the People, and Other Poems
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Charles Brasch
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1939
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Brasch PR9640 B67 L3
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Books
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Christchurch: Caxton Press
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Charles Brasch was about nine and staying at Henley-on-Taieri when he wrote his first poems on the subject of briar roses. As a self-confessed ‘wooly-minded scribbler’ of ‘worthless Georgian-romantic verse’, Brasch continued writing. In 1939, Caxton Press published <em>The Land and the People and Other Poems</em>, his first volume of verse in an edition of 100 copies. Brasch had once written: ‘It was New Zealand I discovered, not England, because New Zealand lived in me as no other country could live, part of myself as I was part of it, the world I breathed and wore from birth, my seeing and my language’ (<em>Indirections</em>). <em>The Land and the People (II)</em>, and its sequences, are part of his personal scrutiny.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Sonnets to Orpheus: Written as a Monument for Wera Ouckama Knoop
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Date
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1936
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Brasch PT2635 I65 S66 1936
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Books
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London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany. In 1928, Brasch bought an Insel Verlag edition of poems by Rilke. Two years later, in April 1930, he bought a German edition of Rilke’s <em>Letters to a Young Poet</em>. From this edition, he translated passages for the second issue of <em>Phoenix</em>, perhaps the earliest translations of this writer to appear in English. Brasch was enthusiastic about the <em>Letters</em>, noting: ‘Yes they were addressed to me!’ The influence lasted, for Brasch collected and read other Rilke titles, including this Leonard and Virginia Woolf published edition of 1936.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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The Art of Ancient Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Applied Art
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[Hermann Ranke]
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1936
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Brasch N5350 AS39
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Books
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Vienna: Phaidon Press
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After a brief trip to New Zealand, which included a disastrous attempt at entering the family business, Brasch headed back to England and Europe. Colin Roberts, a friend, arranged for him to become a field assistant and join the seasonal archaeological digs at Tell el-Amarna. Brasch spent three seasons in Egypt, from 1933 to 1935. Before going out to Egypt, Brasch studied the language at the School of Oriental Studies in London, and read much on Egyptian history. He was at Tell el-Amarna when the head of Queen Nefertiti was unveiled. The infatuation with Egypt obviously continued. He bought this Phaidon edition on the art of Ancient Egypt, which was published in 1936.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose
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William Butler Yeats
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1927
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Brasch PR5904 S76 1927
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Books
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London: Macmillan
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In 1935, Brasch visited Ireland, travelling to places such as Dublin, Gort, Coole, and Sligo. Reading material he carried with him included Yeats’s <em>Collected Poems</em>. The influence was profound: ‘Here was the work of a living poet which sounded like sea surge in my ears and haunted me no less than that of any of the great dead.’ In 1939, Yeats died as did Brasch’s sister Lesley. He wrote gloomily: ‘It was the worst time I had ever known.’ Yeats was always a constant. In 1927, he bought this copy of Yeats’s <em>Red Hanrahan</em>, a reprint from the original in 1897. Reading it, he was able to soak up Irish history and culture told in Yeats’s own inimitable style.
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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago Library
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7th March 2019
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curated by Donald Kerr and Romilly Smith
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The Collected Prose Works
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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1945
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Brasch PG3476 P27 A2 1945
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Books
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London: Lindsay Drummond
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After shrugging off the work-load surrounding <em>Landfall</em> in 1966, Brasch embarked on a rigorous study of Russian. Within the <strong>Brasch Collection</strong> there is almost 7 linear metres of Russian literature, including works by Gorki, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Blok, Solzhenitsyn, and Pasternak. Typical of his own scholarly thoroughness, Brasch began translating some of their works. He tackled Boris Pasternak, of <em>Dr Zhivago</em> fame. Indeed, Brasch felt so confident in his language skills that he scribbled in Alec Brown’s translation of Pasternak’s<em> Safe Conduct</em> (1959) ‘an appalling translation’ and ‘crude & bad!’ Stefan Schimanski’s first English translation of Pasternak’s <em>Collected Prose</em> passed the Brasch test; there are no marks within.
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