Astounding Stories and the usual run of standard SF and Fantasy writers. However, the discovery of Vincent di Fate’s Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction (1997) and his own compilations of cover art by various artists such as Chesley K. Bonestell and Hannes Bok in his collection point to another collecting focus: the artist. This discovery justifies the direction taken within part of this exhibition: a selected coverage of artists from A-Z.]]> Hal Salive]]> Collages]]> Clear Waters of 1920. Here the delicate outline of the body is never defined by a line other than the boundary of one area of highlight with that of shadow; the eye naturally completes the shape by implication and all unnecessary detail is eliminated – it is a lyrical image.’ Gibbings used the technique in much of his early work around the time when he started to become a serious contender in the art world.]]> ___]]> Engraving]]> University of Otago]]> Ephemera]]> Examiner and its editor Leigh Hunt. John Gibson Lockhart produced a series of articles for Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine mocking the Cockney School, and his arrogant critique of Keats was particularly vicious. Noting Keats’s previous employment, Lockhart wrote, “It is a better and wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John’. Another journal, the Quarterly Review, also attacked Keats, leading poet Percy Shelley to claim (falsely) in his 1821 elegy Adonais that harsh reviews had doomed his friend.]]> Z. [John Gibson Lockhart]]]> Periodicals]]> Printed by Jennifer Evans]]> Broadsides]]> ]]> ___]]> Evening Sentinel, Staffordshire, 1938.]]> [Evening Sentinel?]]]> Evening Sentinel]]]> Newspapers]]> Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger]]> Broadsheets]]> Erhard Schön]]> Broadsheets]]> Eubalaena australis) population around New Zealand was almost annihilated during the commercial whaling boom of the 18th and 19th centuries. Numbers are slowly increasing and there are now about 2000 in New Zealand waters. In the winter of 2011, the Marine Science Department of the University of Otago visited the Auckland Islands, aboard RV Polaris II, to conduct ‘the first systematic line-transect survey of potential right whale calving habitat’ (Rayment, et al., 2012). This article is the culmination of the research conducted.]]> W. Rayment, et al.]]> Journal article]]> J.H. Sorenson]]> Pamphlets]]> Edmund Anscombe]]> Paintings]]> Punch, or the London Charivari led to many imitations. The best-known in the Southern hemisphere was the Melbourne Punch (1855-1928), which, like its London counterpart, also circulated in New Zealand. Regional versions appeared in Auckland (1868-1869), New Plymouth (1860), Canterbury (1865-1866), Wellington (1868), and Dunedin (1865-1867). There was also a New Zealand Punch (1898-1900). The magazine covered a mixture of local and national issues, particularly politics. Featured here is a parody of the journalist, politician, and explorer Vincent Pyke’s West Coast Expedition to discover a route from Lake Wanaka to the West Coast. Pyke is pictured astride a moa, since he was known for his theories relating to its extinction (he was to publish a pamphlet on the topic in 1890).]]> The Punch Office]]> Periodical]]> Utopia) and Jules Verne (Voyage to the Centre of the Earth), to hard SF writers such as Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke, and movie and television phenomenon such as Star Trek and Sakaguchi’s The Spirits Within (2001). He also included rules for writing SF stories and the technologies and realities surrounding the worlds of SF and Fantasy.]]> Hal Salive]]> Photocopies]]> In 1874, when Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd was published in the Cornhill Magazine, readers were shocked at some of the work’s sexually explicit scenes. Although the Cornhill received complaints, Hardy’s work continued to be in demand. The twelve illustrations accompanying the tale were by Helen Paterson Allingham, a watercolourist whose work also appeared in the Graphic. The scene depicted here shows the farmer William Boldwood on the verge of proposing to the novel’s complex heroine, Bathsheba Everdene.

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Goblin Market, published in 1865. The double-page spread was illustrated by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.]]> Christina Rossetti]]> Books]]> ‘Goblin Market’ and Selected Poems, providing eleven images throughout the volume. This much lighter illustration was chosen for the frontispiece. Sisters Laura and Lizzie are present, but there is no sign of any evil goblins. This new Folio Society edition was donated to Special Collections by Emeritus Professor Colin Gibson.]]> Christina Rossetti]]> Books]]> ___]]> Photographs]]> Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, which he wrote in 16 volumes over 20 years. In total, the set contained about 16-million words. Apart from writing, Mellor also taught at North Staffordshire Technical College, was a foundational member of the British Ceramic Society, undertook his own research mainly in ceramics technology, and set exams for students in various institutions around the world. Here are some of Mellor’s notes for a new edition of Modern Inorganic Chemistry, first published in 1912.]]> Joseph Mellor]]> Manuscripts]]> Hannes Bok, Frank R. Paul and Earle K. Bergey.]]> Hal Salive]]> Collages]]> [James Stewart]]]> Books]]> [James Stewart]]]> Books]]>