Series consists of ephemera relating to Bewick and his life, including articles and clippings, short biographical pieces, and postcards and products featuring Bewick's work. The ephemera includes commercially-produced items and packaging featuring Bewick engravings, such as wrapping paper and wine labels, and ephemera relating to his place of birth or with his name (for example, matchbooks). One file consists of postcards with watercolours, engravings, and other English scenes. The series also contains a DVD of a film on Thomas Bewick's life written and narrated by Iain Bain. Two files contain clippings and photocopies of articles relating to Bewick; one is a 19th-century clipping originally found by Geraldine Cole between two pages of one of Bewick's volumes previously in her possession. The last file (20) contains 4 original letters from Thomas Bewick to various correspondents, dating between 1813 to 1825. This file also includes a letter on amourning stationery from Isabella Bewick (1881), another 1881 letter from Robert Robinson regarding Bewick cuts, and an 1818 receipt of sale for Esop's Fables.
The series consists of 121 watercolour paintings of birds, created by Elizabeth Gwillim while she was living in Chennai, India (then Madras). The birds were painted from life rather than from the skins or stuffed specimens used by many artists of her day. Many paintings feature their avian subjects within a full landscape. Some paintings contain inscriptions with species identifications and, occasionally, additional observations about the birds.
Series contains research materials, clippings, notes, and manuscripts on writers of the Bloomsbury Group. Includes materials on Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Virginia Woolf, as well as an inventory of George Slater collections of Bloomsbury material. Series also contains manuscripts, proofs, and corrected proofs of Edel's publication "Bloomsbury: A House of Lions."
The booklets and brochures in the Roy States Collection are distributed among several of its series, but in most cases the booklets are part of either Series B or Series C. This distribution reflects the two initial stages of the arrangement of the collection after it was donated to Rare Books and Special Collections. In the first stage, most of the booklets and brochures were uncatalogued. A few were boxed together as miscellaneous materials, but many were placed in individual envelopes or folders, were given individual identification codes, and were listed in the printed finding aid for the collection. In the second stage, some of the booklets with identification codes were catalogued individually; these items are now part of Series B. Most of the remaining booklets, as well as the majority of the brochure-type materials, form Series C.
The series consists of published books owned by the Zoological Society of Montreal, which pertain to the activities and interests of the Society. Some of these works contain the authors’ signatures.
This portion of the collection contains 2714 books and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the puppet theatre in various European languages as well as scripts for puppet plays.
This series contains formally published works either relating to Expo 67 and its exhibitions, or published by Expo 67 and affiliated groups. Contains some published exhibition catalogues.
Consists of volume of bound letters written by Hume, mostly to the Comtesse de Boufflers, but some to the Marquise de Barbentane. Also bound into this volume are 11 letters from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and one from the Maréchal d'Ecosse to Madame de Boufflers and copies of two letters from Madame de Boufflers to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Series consists of 15 bound volumes containing culinary and medicinal recipes, all created or collected in the Doncaster region of South Yorkshire. Two of the volumes are printed works by female authors devoted to cooking, confectionery, and household management (publication dates 1795 and 1814). The remaining 13 are manuscript notebooks. Two of the manuscripts feature attributions to Sarah Anne Warde, while one is attributed to Eliza Smithson. The manuscript attributed to Eliza Smithson contains an enigmatical bill of fare, or table setting riddles, penned by Smithson wherein in place of the name of a dish, Smithson provides an enigma.
This series contains book lists and catalogs which document Mappin’s personal antiquarian book collection. Also includes files about Canadian authors’ deposits and archival fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Includes professional correspondence with other antiquarian books sellers, and documents the contents of their personal or donated collections. Contains machine typed personal index cards containing entries for authors, events, printings, etc. File #1210.02.06.05 contains the cover for The Goblin : a Brief History of Canada's Humour Magazine of the 1920s written by John Mappin and Carl Spadoni however the contents are missing.
