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38                                RolandBaughman

Bechtel gift of literary works. Mrs. Edwin Dc T. Bechtel has pre¬
sented 130 volumes selected from the library of her late hu.sband.
The collection comprises principally first and rare editions of the
works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Addington Symonds, and
William Makepeace Thackeray, but in addition to these is a fine
group of works by, about, and illustrated by the artist Joseph
Penncll.

Berol gift of original Rackham materials. In the May, 1956, issue
of Library Columns we reported the gift by .Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
C. Berol of a superb collection of books illustrated by Arthur
Rackham, formerly the property of Sarah Briggs Latimore, who
in collaboration with Grace Clark Haskell published the definitive
bibliography of Rackham in 1936. The Latimore collection, num¬
bering nearly 400 pieces, left little to be desired in the way of
published works, although we have from time to time been able
to acquire certain continental editions that were lacking.

Subsequently, Mr. and iMrs. Berol have seized several oppor¬
tunities to increase the distinction of the collection by adding
unique original drawings and paintings by the famous book artist.
In 1957, for example, they presented a group of fifty-three orig¬
inal sketches and water-color paintings by Rackham, some of
which have never been published (Columns, February, 1958).
The following year they again presented a fine group of original
materials, including two water-colors, nineteen pen-and-ink
sketches, and various notes in the artist's autograph regarding the
way certain of his drawings were to be handled in printing
(Coto;raj, February, 1959).

And now once again we are able to report a further magnificent
addition to the Arthur Rackham collection. This time .Mr. and
Mrs. Berol have presented a group of nearly 265 pen-and-ink,
water-color, oil, pencil, and pastel originals, bringing the full
count of such items in their gift to more than 340. As noted above,
many of these pieces are presumably unpublished, among which
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