Category Archives: Collections

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Claudia Funke

February 7, 2012, is truly a hallowed date for the history of English literature, marking as it does, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great writer Charles Dickens. We could not forget, because the RBC includes a wonderful … Continue reading →

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Judging the 1855 Leaves of Grass by its Covers

Posted on January 19, 2012 by John Vincler

Why collect more than one copy of a book?  Books have histories: How were they made?  Who owned them?  How were they used or read, and by whom? The RBC holds two copies of the first edition of Walt Whitman’s … Continue reading →

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Fashion Sense and Beardsley Prints

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Claudia Funke

Noted collector Mark Samuels Lasner closed the RBC’s fall season of events with a wonderfully informative and well-presented lecture on “Aubrey Beardsley and His Publishers.” Thursday evening November 10th, some seventy-five people listened to Samuels Lasner explain how three London … Continue reading →

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Official Documents vs. Truth

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Claudia Funke

UNC Professor of History Kathryn Burns delivered the RBC/ISA 2nd annual Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture last evening to an engaged and enthusiastic audience. Discussing her archival experiences in Cuzco that resulted in her recent book Into the Archive: Writing and Power … Continue reading →

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Banned and in the Rare Book Collection

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Claudia Funke

One way that a book can become rare is to be banned. Banned books – the Rare Book Collection, it has them! A week ago, Tuesday evening, as part of the University-wide First Amendment Day, the Rare Book Collection sponsored … Continue reading →

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Original Sin Reprinted

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Claudia Funke

Sometimes a book is so rare and so important, it gets to be reprinted. Last year the Rare Book Collection was thrilled to receive a copy of Un mejicano: el pecado de Adan (A Mexican: Adam’s Sin), printed in 1838 … Continue reading →

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Why We Write in Books

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Jennifer Park

Watch this video to hear curator Claudia Funke speak about annotated books in the Rare Book Collection. Of course, they come to us already annotated. No writing in a book takes place after it enters our collection. Heaven forbid! Writing … Continue reading →

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Physiologie du musicien – Wick Collection of French Romantic Literature

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Jennifer Park

The Physiologies of a variety of subjects—including the physiology of physiologies—were all the vogue in France between 1840 and 1850. A new one in the Rare Book Collection is the Physiologie du musicien, acquired as part of Peter Wick’s incredibly … Continue reading →

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We’ve Been Busy, But now We’re Back!

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Claudia Funke

We’ve been busy since we launched our Blog. The Print Council of America made its first visit ever to North Carolina at the end of May, and Wilson Library was the venue for the annual meeting. The Rare Book Collection … Continue reading →

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