{"id":1337,"date":"2014-05-13T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T23:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2014-05-13T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T23:35:35","slug":"news-on-the-william-colgate-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/news-on-the-william-colgate-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"News on the William Colgate Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Established in 1954 from a gift of several hundred titles of typographical interest, the <strong>William Colgate Collection<\/strong> has prospered over more than half a century from new acquisitions and collection development policies and has become\u00a0one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in Canada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1338\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2014\/05\/AmphoraCoverIllussmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1338\" class=\" wp-image-1338\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2014\/05\/AmphoraCoverIllussmall-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Read more on the founder and donor William Colgate\" width=\"206\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read more on the founder and donor William G. Colgate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, the Colgate Collection covers the full spectrum of the history of printing: typography, the presses, papermaking, book design, illustration, and binding, amounting to more than 12, 000 books, supplemented by sample books and specimens related to book history.\u00a0\u00a0A large part of the collection is focussed on\u00a0fine and small press publications from Europe and North America, dating\u00a0from the\u00a0late 19th century, including the Kelmscott Press of William Morris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the donor and the collection, we invite you to consult the Spring 2014 issue of <em>Amphora<\/em>, a journal specialized in a wide range of topics related to the book published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/alcuinsociety.com\/\">Alcuin Society<\/a>, available on our newsstand in Rare Books and Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that this initial profile\u00a0will attract\u00a0additional researchers and help further define McGill Library&#8217;s\u00a0history of the book collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1954 from a gift of several hundred titles of typographical interest, the William Colgate Collection has prospered over more than half a century from new acquisitions and collection development policies and has become\u00a0one of the most comprehensive collections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/news-on-the-william-colgate-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}