The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge

The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge - A Catalogue and a Commentary

The Butler Collection was not all given to St. Johns at once. I sent up some pictures and some books in 1917; and at intervals I have sent more, always keeping a list of what has gone. Now that I have no more to send seems the proper time for a Catalogue to be issued, and it is made from the lists which I kept, and which were in part printed in The Eagle, put in order by A. T. Bartholomew and annotated by myself. I am responsible for the notes and am the person intended when I and me occur. Bartholomew is responsible for the classification, for verifying, for checking, and for the bibliographical part. In time the collection will no doubt increase as new editions or translations of Butlers books appear and as further books are published referring to him. All such I intend to include in the collection; and I hope that other Butlerians will see fit to make additions to it. I think that the notes give all necessary explanations; but I may perhaps say here that many of the pictures were made before Butler contemplated writing such a book as Alps and Sanctuaries. When he was preparing that book he went to the places therein described and made on the spot many black and white drawings for reproduction; but he found that this method would take too long, so he made others of the black and white drawings from oil and water-colour sketches which he had done previously, and this is why some of the pictures are dated many years before the book was published. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 23558
Author: Bartholomew, A. T. (Augustus Theodore)
Release Date: Nov 20, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Jones, Henry Festing, 1851-1928