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Rare Book Division
Collection Strengths
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Includes collections relating to late 19th and early 20th century American history. Highlights include collections relating to TheodoreRoosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Andrew Jackson.
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This section is divided into four groupings: I. Kane Collection II. McCormick Collection. III. General Rare Book Collection. IV. Scheide Library.
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In the Autumn 1977 issue of the Chronicle, the Princeton Emblem Bibliography project was announced. The project involves the census of emblem books at Princeton (and elsewhere), as well as several other related projects.
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See entrys in this guide for the following: ENGLISH BOOKS, EARLY PRINTED, 1475-1700 · ENGLISH BOOKS -- The Princeton One Hundred Great English Books · ENGLISH CIVILIZATION OF THE LATTER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY · ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY -- EIGHTEENTH CENTURY · ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE NINETEEN
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Placed on deposit in the Princeton University Library in 1972, and received as a bequest in 1985, the Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 rare books and 3,300 manuscripts illustrating the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1920's.
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Principal holdings are in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists.
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Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, and A.M. 1896, was a nephew of the celebrated John Pierpont Morgan, the great financier. J. S. Morgan began collecting as a student, and was early attracted to Virgil probably through the influence of Dean West.
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Rare Book Collections @ Princeton Blog
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The Exhibition Room, or, why 'Ex' is the location designator for rare books in the Princeton University LibraryPosted 10 years 9 months ago