Richard Overell

Book Review Richard Overell, Rare Books Librarian at Monash University, Press, but otherwise unrelated to looks at two recent catalogues published by the University of Cambridge, although it includes books Melbourne Library about the Press. Also excluded are books by Cambridge people written on other subjects. Cambridge in Books: the University, the Town and the County. A Catalogue, A personal interest of mine centres Arranged by Author, of the Collection Held by the University of Melbourne Library, on the early eighteenth century dispute compiled by Pierre Gorman. 3rd edition. Melbourne, Baillieu Library, 1995. which involved Dr Bently and Trinity Cambridge in Books: the University, the Town and the County. A Catalogue, College. There are some references to it Arranged by Year of Publication, of the Collection Held by the University of Melbourne here, although it does not appear to be Library, compiled by Pierre Gorman. Melbourne, Baillieu Library, 1995. covered comprehensively. The forthcoming subject index, which will complete Dr Gorman's listings of his hese two catalogues refer to a summary, by Dr Gorman, of the collection, may, however, reveal more collection of books on background to the collection. However, material which is relevant. Cambridge, formerly in the for assessing the strength of the material, T The University of Melbourne must possession of Dr Pierre Gorman, held in the listing by date is perhaps best. The be congratulated on having acquired this the Special Collection area of the earliest work, Caius' De Antiquitate world class collection. Dr Gorman is to Baillieu Library. Cantebrigiensis Academiae... (London, be commended for having assembled it Dr Gorman is well known in John Day, 1574) is followed by four and for continuing to add to it. His scholarly circles as an expert on items from the Restoration period and catalogues make it accessible to the education for the deaf. He is a former twenty five from the eighteenth century. scholarly community. student of Melbourne University and of The bulk of the collection, naturally, is The catalogues are available for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and drawn from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Gorman is still buying purchase from the Administrative has worked as an academic at Monash Services Unit of the University of and Melbourne Universities, as well as at books to add to the collection. This includes all new books within the Melbourne Library, at $15.00 per various overseas institutions. It is as a volume. + result of his background at Cambridge collection's scope, as well as any items and Melbourne universities that Dr from earlier periods which are needed to fill gaps. Gorman has brought together this collection and passed it on to the Baillieu The collection is strong in pictorial Library. works, including of course, variant copies of Ackermann' s The Library acquired the nucleus of History of the the collection, some 600 books, from Dr University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Gorman in 1994. He has continued to Halls, and Public Buildings (1815). As add to these and the collection now well as books, Dr Gorman has donated numbers about 1300 titles. This is in part prints of Cambridge to the Baillieu the result of Dr Gorman's contacts with Library's print collection. the Librarian at the Cambridgeshire The changing face of Cambridge can Libraries Local Studies Collection. The be traced in the large numbers of guide duplicates from that collection were books, particularly from the nineteenth acquired by Dr Gorman and have now century. Topographical works are found been added to his collection in the in profusion, as are the histories of the Baillieu Library. colleges. The main catalogue of the collection, The scope of the collection is set out where the books are fully described, is in the titles. It does not include books the author list. This also includes a brief published by the Cambridge University ■30 1 V wRINT M.V, TAKES HIS DEt■ it116 eSt T,t Naufragia Tutus"— Sum Raecatau reus Artium.— A 1 tor: Town v. Gown, and The Varmint Man, both in The Cambridge Undergraduate One Hundred Years Ago Cambridge, 1592, a view from the air by John Hammond; in Cambridge Architecture A 1927 view of King's College; from Images of Cambridge .

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