Recent Additions

• Pirates of the Press: Case Studies in the Prehistory of Copyright 

  Doskey, Adam V.; Newcomb, Lori Humphrey (The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015-09-18)

  What do book pirates steal? Unlike buccaneers who plunder treasure from travelers, press-pirates seize reprinting rights from other publishers. In sixteenth-century England, Thomas Dekker first gave the name ‘pirates’ to ...

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• A Nation in Tears: 150 Years after Lincoln's Death: An Exhibition Held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 12 February--4 May 2015 

  Hoffmann, John; Sears, Dennis J.; Yestrepsky, Michelle (The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2015-02-12)

  The sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral is commemorated by this exhibition. Items include a copy of the initial printing of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865; an uncut copy of ...

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• Marks of Distinction: Reflections on the Reading Room Windows 

  Boehmer, Thomas A.W. (The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2014-11-08)

  Catalog of a one-night exhibition celebrating the printers' marks decorative windows in the Reading Room of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Main Library.

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• First Global Conflict: Contemporary Views of the Great War, 1914-1919 

  Sears, Dennis; Hynes, Tony; Szylowicz, Caroline (The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2014-08-29)

  A century has passed since the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the premiership of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This murder in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 set in motion the first great conflict of the twentieth ...

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• From Babylon to Baseball: Recent Additions fo the Rare Book & Manuscript Library 

  Hotchkiss, Valerie R.; Boehmer, Thomas A.W.; Chen, Anna; Hynes, Tony; Lindenbaum, Sarah; Ottenhoff, Chloe; Sears, Dennis J.; Stromberg, Marten; Szylowicz, Caroline (2014-01)

  Item list for exhibition of new acquisitions to the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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