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Resources in ZSR Library Special Collections for ENG165 A Material World: Fictional Victorians and Their Stuff, Professor Rachel Ernst, Fall 2021
Listed below are materials from the ZSR Library Special Collections, all of which are appropriate candidates for the Object Study assignment in this class. To find other relevant materials, search the library catalog or contact Megan Mulder.
Special Collections Materials
- Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century; with a review of the state of society in 1807. byCall Number: DA677 .M25 1808Publication Date: 1808Charles Dickens's copy, with his bookplate.
- The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments; together with the Apocrypha. byCall Number: BS185 1810 .P52Publication Date: 1810"Family Record" pages (677-680) bound in between Old and New Testaments. Library copy has extensive genealogical information about the family of Thomas Stone (b. 1751) and Sarah Fooshee (b. 1754); and with lock of hair laid in.
- Monstrosities [scrapbook] byCall Number: NC1475.B23 M6Publication Date: between 1815 and 1860?Bound scrapbook with 467 pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor sketches by Barclay. Most are grotesques or caricatures, some with captions. Illustrations are mounted on various colored papers. Barclay (1796-1884) was a solicitor in Wickham Market, Suffolk.
- Friendship album of Miss JohnstonCall Number: LC1421 .B88Publication Date: ca.1820-1840Manuscript album with at least four contributors, probably British. Includes poetry and prose excerpts and original works, some with pencil corrections. With six original illustrations (drawings and watercolors). None of the contributors is named, but one of the entries (Stanzas by G.E.L.) has a "Note by the Editor" signed "Miss M. Johnston."
- Child's cabinet library byCall Number: BV4571 .C4Publication Date: 1827-1869A mixed set of 50 miniature volumes for children published by the American Sunday-School Union and issued in a glass-fronted wooden bookcase.
- Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son byCall Number: PR4559.A1 1846Publication Date: 1846-1848The original parts issued from October 1846 to April 1848. The last part (i.e. parts 19-20) contains the preliminary matter for the completed work. With illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.
- Jane Eyre : an autobiography byCall Number: PR4167.J3 1847Publication Date: 1847First edition, from the collection of Charles H. Babcock.
- The Keepsake :a gift for the holidays. With illustrations executed expressly for this work.Call Number: AY11 .K4 1854Publication Date: 1854Gift album with decorative binding and chromolithographed presentation page.
- Harold Seton theatre actor photograph collection byCall Number: MS578Publication Date: 1870-1910Collection includes card photographs, cabinet photographs, photographic prints, photographic postcards, and cartes des visite of actors and actresses from circa 1870-1910. Harold Seton is best known for his work as a journalist, author, and collector. His interest in society and theatre was documented in the column he wrote for Theatre Magazine, "Theatre Thoughts," and his writings for Town Topics: The Journal of Society.
- Beautiful seaweeds, illustrated by natural specimens. Also, instructions for collecting & mounting marine algae, and a complete list of all the British species. byCall Number: QK566.3 .C6 B4 1877Publication Date: 1877Includes printed text and 34 pages of mounted seaweed specimens.
- Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediaeval styles byCall Number: NK2180 .A8Publication Date: 1882The Audsley brothers, William James and George Ashdown, were Scottish architects who practiced in Liverpool from 1856 to 1880, in London during the 1880s, and in New York City beginning in 1892. This volume was intended as a pattern book and practical guide to the painted decoration of medieval-style buildings. It includes 166 designs on 36 lithograph plates printed by Firmin-Didot.
- Duke Tobacco Company cigarette card collectionCall Number: MS622Publication Date: ca. 1888Chromolithograph trading cards and booklets, issued as advertisements for Duke Brothers and Company, Durham, N.C., and packed in Duke's cigarettes.
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