By kferrante on January 8, 2015
A new exhibition is on display this month at Rare Books at Special Collections, featuring rare publications of works by Oscar Wilde: “That mighty love which maddens one to crime,” Teleny, Oscar Wilde, and Decadent Publishing in the 1890s This exhibition will be on display until January 31, 2014, and is free and open to […]
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By kferrante on November 19, 2014
A new exhibition is now on display at Rare Books & Special Collections. This exhibition features book binding tools used by one of the first book binders in Vancouver, Dorothy Alcorn Burnett. Dorothy graduated from the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (now Emily Carr University) in 1930. She left her tools, plus a […]
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By kferrante on July 31, 2014
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI. Here at Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC), we have a number of items and collections related to the war, and thought we would observe the war’s centennial by highlighting a few for you in a series of blog posts. RBSC holds the papers of […]
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