!["Jo. Knok[e]s 1561" - John Knox's signature? (Sp Coll Euing Dr-b.5](https://universityofglasgowlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/drb5_knox_sig.jpg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
Staff at the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections have identified a previously unknown book once owned by Scottish religious reformer John Knox. The large folio Latin and Hebrew Old Testament published in 1546 in Basel, Switzerland, appears to bear the… Read More ›
As book reviews go, the following is a bit of a stinker: “[B]arbarous arrangement of materials … [and] still more barbarous typographical execution. … It is hardly possible to conceive a book more rudely printed”1 This was the rather uncharitable… Read More ›
Something is very strange about this title page. Amusingly so. Can you see what it is? During printing the second “M” of the second word in the title, “GRAMMAIRE”, must accidentally have been omitted (fairly embarrassing for a work on… Read More ›
Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre continues to enchant modern readers for various reasons: its intriguing blend of realism and Gothic elements; the tumultuous central romance; its keen critiques of unfair social institutions; and the eponymous narrator’s original voice, which veers between… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Lynn Verschuren, Museum Studies project placement in Special Collections. Earlier this month, the University of Glasgow welcomed internationally renowned scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, linguistics and disability studies as part of the… Read More ›
What might a day in the life of child growing up in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic have looked like? Well fear not, for with the help of our newest acquisition, a small illustrated Dutch children’s book from the period, we… Read More ›
Anthony Trollope’s series of Palliser novels, also known as the “Parliamentary Novels”, is an epic saga which charts the story of the relationship between the wealthy aristocrat and Liberal politician Plantagenet Palliser and his wife, the headstrong and mischievous Lady… Read More ›
