From Monday 25 March Special Collections will be hosting a week-long HATII class on The Development of the Book. This new class, taught by visiting staff from City University New York, will use examples from Special Collections to explore a… Read More ›
We are delighted to report an exciting new arrival in Special Collections – a beautiful copy of the first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations recently gifted by alumnus Stuart Leckie, OBE. The Wealth of Nations hardly needs introduction… Read More ›
![Woodcut of Hippocrates (presumably raised from the dead!) talking with Avicenna. From Hippocrates: Prognostics [English] [ca. 1545] (Sp Coll Hunterian Au.4.11e)](http://universityofglasgowlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/stonley_hippo_avi.jpg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
Richard Stonley (1519 or 20-1600) boasts an interesting literary claim to fame: his acquisition of a newly printed copy of Venus and Adonis on 12th June 1593 makes him the earliest known purchaser of any Shakespeare work. We are fortunate… Read More ›
The latest display in the foyer of the Special Collections Department features four items from our collections with a notable provenance or ownership history. We are always interested in discovering the provenance of the books in our care in order… Read More ›
The latest display in the Special Collections foyer features three of our incunabula – that is, those books that were printed before 1501. A project to catalogue in detail our impressive collection of some 1,000 of these 15th century books… Read More ›
