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Napoleon, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Napoleon, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Rare Books & Special Collections Publications
This catalog accompanied the small exhibit of books and other items pertaining to Napoleon maintained by Rare Books and Special Collections. South Carolina College library actively collected books throughout the years when Napoleon was Emperor and in the years after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Many of the items on display were bought on publication for the college library as new works illustrating current world affairs. Others come from a group of books about Napoleon donated by Mrs. Donald Saunders and from the Alfred Chapin Rogers Collection.
Introducing The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection Of John Milton, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Introducing The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection Of John Milton, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Rare Books & Special Collections Publications
This catalog accompanied the exhibit which displays a portion of the Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton. The breath of Milton's own interests and the international and chronological range of those who have responded to him are highlighted in this exhibit. Among the items on display are early illustrated editions of Paradise Lost, books that influenced Milton, contemporary reaction to Milton, Milton as a political thinker, Milton and his illustrators, as well as those relating to Milton as a poet, and the growth of his influence.
William Blake: Visionary & Illustrator, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
William Blake: Visionary & Illustrator, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Rare Books & Special Collections Publications
This brochure describes a Department of Rare Books & Special Collections exhibit of materials relating to William Blake. The exhibit charted Blake’s development chronologically through both sides of his activity, from his earliest known work as an apprentice engraver in the 1770’s through the extraordinary originality of his political and prophetic poems in the 1790’s and early 1800’s, and the deep emotion of the later illustrations he prepared for Edward Young’s poem Night Thoughts (1796-97) and Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808). The original editions of many of the books for which Blake prepared engravings were acquired by the South Carolina …
John James Audubon & Ornithological Illustration Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
John James Audubon & Ornithological Illustration Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Rare Books & Special Collections Publications
Among the greatest treasures of the antebellum South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) was its set of Audubon's huge double-elephant folio Birds of America, published in parts between 1827 and 1838, and purchased by the South Carolina state legislature for the College. Fewer than 130 complete sets, with all 435 plates, now survive. In addition to its main archival set of Birds of America, USC’s Thomas Cooper Library bas received numerous donations of significant items to its Audubon collections over the years. The exhibition traces the development of bird illustration, to give a context for …