T.W. Baldwin Elizabethan Library. ca. 5800 volumes. The personal library of an eminent Shakespeare scholar of the University of Illinois, the Baldwin collection offers materials for the study of Shakespeare and other Elizabethan figures. As professor Baldwin was particularly interested in Shakespeare's education, school materials - grammars and dictionaries - are well represented. Also included are sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century texts of classical authors with commentaries, rhetorics, histories, Bibles, and prayerbooks. Some twenty volumes of the Baldwin Library were printed before 1640 and were unique in the United States at the time the collection was acquired. Much of the collection is housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. The collection is not online, but it has a separate shelflist. Some items are part of the general library collection. A catalog of the library's contents is available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. Acquired, 1967, by purchase and gift.

UIU00035

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extent: Books   

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rare Books and Manuscript Library
WorldCat Registry ID: 89813 [ISIL:OCLC-89813]