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-— T/ze Kemeeeey I4/ememes    
  A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE ALUMNI AND STUDENTS
  OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
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  . and literary materials dating: from
g   the sixteenth century. Some of it
    in i      ' was collected in France soon afte1·
    ~ i,__V {§~ » A the French Revolution, and the
          books of this period are 1l()\\' Ull-
 _  We  p    7;. obtainable upon the open book
l if  I   "     t market. Only througzh generous
  iio   °       gifts of its friends can tl1e Univer-
    ' Q ‘ ( __V, I -,»·“‘ ”   _ sity of Kentucky ever hope to pro-
A   ii  YP _ _   t‘ll1'€ such fine basic research ma-
,      °%,_ terials. I11 view of the fact that
    _»  il  the Library has made some effort
  · E `;    I to collect fine examples of book-
  i   · __ making: and printing, and that it
  I ll is now beginning a press, it is
 · especially lieartening that the
Pickett collection contains such a
- 0 large amount of fine printing, il-
r   lustrating Hlld binding;. There are
  :r_ _ hundreds of splendid illustrations
—     _ __ which date back almost to the
  *  i       __ _ __V__V;p 4   beg·inning· of this art. One can al-
A (    .  " rn ' A ' Hlost t[‘;l(}€ tl]? lllST0l`}' of typo`
T Joseph D. Pickett ;I1'Hlll1)’ tll1`0ll{Il1 the titles in this
collection. There are likewise
        scores of fine examples of the
; binder's art. and many rare cx-
        D•   amples of marbled pape1·s. t
 Z F1'()ll1 the standpoint of the
‘       serious student of history and
M  literature this collection goes far i
 ·’ The University of Kentucky dent, 1867-1869, ofthe institution. b(>y()]ld its at-tlstle v;ilue_ It cou-
 i Lib1‘ar_v has just received one of It was largely illl‘()Il§i'll his efforts, taiug basic source material which `q;`
g_  The handsomest gifts whieh has as successor to John Augxnstns js absolutely neeessary in the or-  
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