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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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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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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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Walking with James Hogg: the Ettrick Shepherd’s Journeys Through Scotland
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Bruce Gilkison
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2016
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Hogg PR4792 G55 2016
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Books
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; with kind permission
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The <strong>Hogg Collection</strong> contains about 100 volumes; some manuscript material, mainly letters; and ephemera. The collection includes Hogg’s own publications, other books owned by Hogg (with some proprietorial inscriptions), and acquisitions made by the Special Collections Librarian. This book, by Hogg’s great-great-grandson, Bruce Gilkison, recounts his re-creation of Hogg’s Highland travels in the early 1800s. In recent years, the life and works of James Hogg have experienced a resurgence of interest, and Special Collections is lucky enough to have some unique items associated with the Ettrick Shepherd.
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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Views of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body, with Concise Explanations. Selected for the Use of Students Attending Anatomy
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Andrew Fyfe
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18036
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Monro M112
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Books
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Edinburgh: Printed by J. Pillans and Sons
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This depiction of a dissection of the human body was executed by the author of the work, Andrew Fyfe. Anatomist Fyfe (1752-1824) was ‘dissector’ at Edinburgh University for forty years, under the Monros <em>secundus</em> and <em>tertius</em>. One of his students, Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841) described him as a ‘good anatomist’ but a ‘horrid lecturer’. The front pastedown of this volume contains an inscription which reads ‘Alexr Monro MD/ Craiglockhart/James Monro/a present from his Papa 1822’. James (1806-1870) and his brother, David (1813-77) both became doctors. David emigrated to New Zealand in 1841, which is how the <strong>Monro Collection</strong> came to be housed here in Dunedin.
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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Uncle Joe’s Nonsense for Young and Old Children
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J. W. Mellor
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1934
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Mellor Collection, uncatalogued
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Books
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London: Published for the Ceramic Society by Longmans, Green, and Co
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Joseph Mellor’s parents, Job and Emma, were working class, and very proud of their son’s accomplishments. Including Joseph, there were six siblings, two boys and four girls. Unfortunately, Mellor and his wife, Emma never had children, but he wrote to his nieces and nephews (mainly the children of his sister, Agnes) on a regular basis. In the letters, Mellor used his talents as a cartoonist to entertain them, and to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he told them. While the <strong>Mellor Collection</strong> does not contain any original ‘Uncle Joe’ letters, <em>Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> contains many of the letters in print and was published by the Ceramic Society in 1934. This page recounts a ‘dream’ Mellor had on a bus when a fellow passenger accused him of being a thief.
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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Title
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Umbria
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Touring Club Italiano
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1950
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Special Collections DG975 U5 TQ19 1950
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Books
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[Milan]: Touring Club Italiano
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The <em>Stack Collection</em> in Special Collections has a somewhat uninspiring name, which belies its very interesting contents. The collection contains post-1800 volumes, about 4000 books in total, made up of transfers from other libraries and general stack, donations, and purchases. Within the collection there are smaller collections of books, most notably books by or associated with John Evelyn (d. 1706), John Locke (d. 1704), Robert Graves (d. 1985), and Eric Gill (d. 1940). There is an assortment from commentaries to guide books, to modern literature and art books. This small Touring Club Italiano guidebook is the regional guide to Umbria, in the middle of the Italian boot. It contains detailed maps, accommodation recommendations, and places to visit.
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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Twenty-One Tales
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Rudyard Kipling
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1972
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Colin Gibson Folio Society Collection PR4852 W5 1972; Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Books
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London: Folio Society
Abstract
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Emeritus Professor Colin Gibson only collected illustrated Folio Society volumes, like Rudyard Kipling's <em>Twenty-One Tales</em>.
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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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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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The Towers of Trebizond
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Rose Macaulay
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2005
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Colin Gibson Folio Society Collection PR6025 A16 T69 2005
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Books
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London: Folio Society
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The Folio Society was founded in 1947 by the publisher, Charles Ede (1921-2002). With its establishment, Ede ‘restored an element of elegance to publishing after the pinched austerity’ of WWII. The published volumes were a means by which anyone could lay their hands on ‘great literature’. Many of the volumes are illustrated by famous artists and most come beautifully bound with their own slipcase. Professor Colin Gibson’s <strong>Folio Society Collection</strong> was a working collection, used for teaching and reference. Here is Rose Macaulay's <em>The Towers of Trebizond</em>.
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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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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
Publisher
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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.
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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 Pillow Book: An Illustrated Celebration of Eastern Erotica
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Edited and introduced by Charles Fowkes
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1988
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Colin Gibson Erotica Collection. Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Books
Publisher
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London: Hamlyn
Abstract
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University of Otago’s Emeritus Professor Colin Gibson (b. 1933) is an expert on Chaucer and hymnology but has wider research interests in many literary genres. He is a lay preacher, an organist and choirmaster, and is an internationally renowned writer of hymns. In December 2017, in a bid to have a ‘clear out’, Gibson gifted his <strong>Erotica</strong> and <strong>Folio Society Collections</strong> to Special Collections. There are over 1000 volumes, and at this stage, about three-quarters of them have been catalogued. This volume, on display, highlights Eastern erotica.
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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 Penny Fiddle. Poems for Children
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Robert Graves
Date
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1960
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Brasch PR6013 R35 P4
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Books
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London: Cassell
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Twenty-five pages in Brasch’s <em>The Universal Dance</em>, a posthumous publication (1981) of selected prose writings, are dedicated to the English poet Robert Graves. Brasch admired Graves’s polished verse and felt he was ‘among the finest English poets of our time, one of the few who is likely to be remembered as a poet.’ Through Brasch’s instigation, books by Graves were systematically purchased and today, Special Collections houses the largest collection of poetry and prose by Graves in New Zealand. This delightful ‘poems for children’ is colourfully illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, the British artist. It is from Brasch’s own collection.
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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 Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales
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James Hogg
Date
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1807
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Hogg PR4791 M68 1807
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Books
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Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne by Arch. Constable and Co.
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Novelist and poet, James Hogg (1770-1835) was born into a tenant farming family near Ettrick, about thirty miles south of Edinburgh as the crow flies. Out of necessity, Hogg began his working life as a cowherd aged eight. Despite a limited early education, he wrote his first verses in 1793, inspired by the stories and songs he had heard growing up. This volume, <em>The Mountain Bard</em>, is Hogg’s first published collection of ‘ballads and songs’, and is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott, who also helped to edit the publication. Most of the <strong>Hogg Collection</strong> was donated to the University of Otago’s Special Collections, in 1952, by the great-grandchildren of Hogg, the Gilkison family.
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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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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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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
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Lewis Carroll
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2006
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Special Collections PR4611 H8 2006a
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Private Press
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Dunedin: Otakou Press
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The English Department at the University of Otago has been indulging in letterpress printing, in what was called the Bibliography Room, since the early 1960s. In 2003, Special Collections Librarian, Dr Donald Kerr, initiated the Printer in Residence programme in the University Library. Each year, a printer, usually in collaboration with an artist and a writer, publishes a small edition letterpress volume. In 2006, the work was a 'package' of Carroll's <em>The Hunting of the Snark. </em>It was the result of the work of Auckland printer, Tara McLeod and Dunedin artist, David Elliot. The <strong>Stack Collection</strong> contains a copy of each year’s Printer in Residence programme output alongside private press editions from around the world.
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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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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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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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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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The Anatomy of the Human Nerves, with an Account of the Reciprocal Motions of the Heart, and a Description of the Human Lacteal Sac and Duct. 5th edition
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Alexander Monro
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1758
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Monro M161iii
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Books
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Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour
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The <strong>Monro Collection</strong> consists of about 400 printed medical books and manuscripts owned in turn, and added to, by a father (<em>primus</em> 1697-1767), son (<em>secundus</em> 1733-1817), and grandson (<em>tertius</em> 1773-1859) – all of whom were called Alexander Monro. They were all medical doctors, and held the Chair of Anatomy at Edinburgh University. In 1929, the collection was transferred to the Otago Medical School, a gift facilitated by the grandson of Alexander Monro <em>tertius</em>, Dr Charles Monro Hector (d. 1935), a resident of New Zealand. This volume was written by Monro <em>primus</em>, and the published work has been interleaved so manuscript notes could be added by the author.
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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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Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions
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John Evelyn
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1664
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De Beer Ec 1664 E
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London: Printed by [John Martyn and James Allestry], Printers to the Royal Society
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In September 1931, the Delegates of the Clarendon Press invited Esmond de Beer to prepare and edit the first full edition of John Evelyn’s diary. In pursuit of Evelyn (1620-1706), de Beer travelled to Italy (which he loved), France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The <em>Diary</em>, which covered Evelyn’s life from 1640 to 1706, was published in six volumes in 1955, to universal acclaim. As part of his preparation for this project, de Beer collected the works of Evelyn, many quite scarce, and if ever available, expensive. <em>Sylva</em>, the first publication of the then newly formed Royal Society, was Evelyn’s treatise on the practical instruction in the growth and management of trees. A popular work, it was reprinted numerous times. This is the scarce first edition.
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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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Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers. 5th ed. revised and augmented
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Karl Baedeker
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1872
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Special Collections DQ16 B351 1872
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Books
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Coblenz: K. Baedeker
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This early Baedeker on Switzerland is from the <strong>de Beer Collection</strong>, and would have been an invaluable guide to many travellers to the country and surrounding areas.
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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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Sonnets to Orpheus: Written as a Monument for Wera Ouckama Knoop
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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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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Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works: with a Life of the Author, and a Selection of Notes, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory. Vol. II
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William Shakespeare
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1830
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McGlashan PR2753 H25 1830
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Books
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London: J.F. Dove
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Not only was McGlashan a political animal and religious leader, but he was also a fervent educationalist. He believed in education as a path to equality, and he served on the Otago Education Board from 1856. John McGlashan College in Pilkington Street, Dunedin, is one of the legacies of McGlashan’s education philosophies – his daughter gifted the family home, and the land it sat on, for use as the school grounds in 1918. According to their website, John McGlashan College tries to uphold their namesake’s beliefs by maintaining the ‘tradition of academic excellence’. Perhaps they still study such great works as this Shakespeare, which was once in the College’s 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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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.
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