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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Baillieu Library Special Collections, University of Melbourne, Vic.

Description

The Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, comprise some 200,000 rare or historic books, serials and pamphlets and literary archives.

The McArthur Bequest (1903) was the first substantial donation to the University Library, which has been followed by, among others, the Sir Russell Grimwade, Ian McLaren and Clern Christesen collections acquired in the 1970s.

Website

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/

Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Vic.

Description

This Collection began when Dr John Orde Poynton generously donated 3,700 Old Master prints in 1959. In 1964, the Collection was enhanced by Harold Wright’s bequest of half his collection of Lionel Lindsay prints and prints by W. P. Robins and H. J. Stuart Brown. It has since been supplemented by gifts and purchases to number over 8,000 prints and volumes from the 15th to the 20th centuries, including paintings.

Website

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/prints/