{"id":610,"date":"2014-09-15T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/annexe\/?p=610"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:24:05","slug":"fifty-shelves-of-gray-and-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/annexe\/2014\/09\/15\/fifty-shelves-of-gray-and-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shelves of Gray (and Nelson)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Laird of Glenfernie by Mary Johnston (Nelson’s Continental Library)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Springtime by H. C. Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n

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While the cover of Fifty Shades of Grey <\/em>displays a degree of restraint, publishers and consumers of the romance genre did not always have such a taste for understated dust-jackets. Instead, they favoured a more direct approach.<\/p>\n

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The Prize-Winner. A comedy in one act by Macdonald Watson (Repertory Plays. no. 86.)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The King’s Wooing by Conal O’Riordan (Repertory Plays No. 71)<\/p><\/div>\n

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In these examples from Gowans and Gray\u2019s playbooks of the 1910s to 30s and Nelson\u2019s Novels from the 20s onwards, it\u2019s clear that previous generations wanted to get right to the action.<\/p>\n

\"Marcella<\/a>

Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward<\/p><\/div>\n

Over 500 books from the Nelson publishing archive have been shelf-marked and catalogued by rare books cataloguing interns Beth and Fiona. There are only around another 9,500 left to go!<\/p>\n

The books in the collection reflect the decades of the 20th<\/sup> century- beginning with the staid, uniform editions of the New Century Library; progressing through stylish art deco illustrations; austere WWI and WWII paper; bright, pulpy dust-jackets from the \u201840s and \u201850s; and into rainbow-hued classics of the later decades.<\/p>\n

Interesting examples of the changing book styles of the 20th<\/sup> century will be exhibited in the 6th<\/sup> floor display wall at the Centre for Research Collections next year.<\/p>\n

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The Thomas Nelson Archive contains these Gowans and Gray playbooks; a handsome series of repertory plays with fragile glassine dust wrappers.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fiona Mowat and Beth Dumas , CRC Cataloguing Interns<\/em><\/p>\n

Items from Nelson’s Library on the On-line Catalogue <\/a><\/p>\n

[Blog] The AnneXe Factor: Full Nelson Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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