By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian In 1905 Watkinson Library received a donation that would be the envy of many museums: a collection of nearly 1500 early printed books and more than 40 scrapbooks of early woodcuts and engravings belonging to William Cowper Prime (1825-1905).[1] Prime—who served as the first chair of …
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