While checking the special collections provenance file, three books owned by Alexander Pope were identified in our collections, in addition to the presentation copies of his collected letters that he inscribed to William Oliver. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s provenance file provides a wealth of information about notable former owners of the books in […]
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Three books from Alexander Pope’s library
June 10, 2010
Kierkegaard Sammelbände: A Cataloging Problem, Solved
May 28, 2010
At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s monthly No. 44 Society meetings, it is a tradition to share a book from the RBML vault that is related to the historical events of the day. On May 5th, a discovery was made while retrieving a first edition of Soren Kierkegaard’s Forord (1844) for the anniversary of […]
Hans Christian Andersen’s Presentation Copy to a Young Neighbor (IUA15161)
May 21, 2010
The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) gained international fame for his fairy tales. In fact, at the time of this blog posting, Edward Erikson’s famed statue of the Little Mermaid, which is permanently located in Copenhagen Harbor, is on display in Shanghai, China for EXPO 2010. It is timely that the Rare Book & […]
Alexander Pope Presentation Copies
May 6, 2010
While cataloging the Nickell Collection of 18th-century English Literature, a presentation copy from Alexander Pope to William Oliver has been discovered. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is best known for his poems, which include The Rape of the Lock (1712) and An Essay on Man (1733-4). But Pope was also a prolific letter writer due to a […]