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Rare
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It was fall 1962 when the Rare
Book Room moved to the third floor of Neilson Library, where
it remains today. The resource was named the Mortimer Rare
Book Room, after Ruth Mortimer '53, in 1994. The Mortimer Rare
Book Room fetes 50 years in Neilson with an anniversary
celebration on Friday, Oct. 12, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in the Book
Arts Gallery, Neilson third floor; open to all.
The celebration centers on an
exhibition, "A Room of Our Own," on display in the Book Arts
Gallery through December 20. The Gate asked Mortimer
Rare Book Room staff members to designate and discuss some
of their favorite items from the collection.
Below are their selections, with images and comments.
Click on each image for a large view and detail photos.
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| Mel
Carson: The
Peacock at Home, by Catherine Dorset, a children’s
poem first published in 1807. |
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Mark
Morford:
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published
in 1896. |
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Barbara
Blumenthal:
Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world
from biblical Creation to the late 15th century. |
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| Martin
Antonetti: Evidence of Compression, an artist's book
by Julie Chen. |
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John
Lancaster: Libellus
contra beneficiorum reservationes by Antonius
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Karen
Kukil: Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf.
A modernist sketch, hand-set and bound by Woolf
in 1919. |
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