| H03071"MAX GATE LIBRARY CATALOGUE" 8/22/03 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:19:11 -0400 From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com> Subject: The Hardy Library at Max Gate
I want to call it to the attention of members of the Forum that Michael Millgate has now posted on the WWW the result of his long research into a reconstruction of the contents of Thomas Hardy's library at Max Gate. This is an extraordinary catalogue which Professor Millgate has chosen to publish in electronic form in order to keep it updated when new entries or new information about its current entries becomes available. The catalogue is available at the following URL:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/hardy/
Messages offering information about additions or corrections can be sent to Professor Millgate at <michael.millgate@utoronto.ca>.
Most importantly, the catalogue provides information about the current locations of the entries it cites. But it provides as well a wealth of other information, including Hardy's markings of the items cited, previous owners, and much other significant detail.
For the extraordinary contributions Michael Millgate has already made to Hardy studies we owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude. And now, once again, he is due our thanks for what has been the product of over a decade of his scrupulous scholarship. Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Department of English State University of New York Fredonia, NY 14063 USA schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:25:19 -0400 From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com> Subject: More on the Millgate Catalogue of the Hardy Library at Max Gate
Almost any scholar searching through Michael Millgate's reconstruction of Hardy's library at Max Gate will come upon items of particular interest. But some seem worth noting at once. Michael Millgate's detailed comments on Hardy's bookplates seem to me indispensable for anyone seriously engaged in collecting Hardy association items. And, of course, for anyone concerned with tracing influences on Hardy's thought, the Millgate catalogue is an indispensable supplement to what can be learned from Hardy's notebooks. Moreover, Millgate's careful specifications of catalogue sales of items whose locations are no longer known provides further guidance for the identification of copies that are bound in the future to come on the book market.
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Department of English State University of New York Fredonia, NY 14063 USA schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com
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