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Dunedin, New Zealand and New Castle, Delaware: Otago University Press and Oak Knoll Press, 2006. hardcover, dust jacket. Grey, George. 6 x 9.25. hardcover, dust jacket. 352 pages. Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Less well known of Grey is that we he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artifacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed. Through these items, we are given a look into Grey's less -publicized private life. There are actually two "Grey Collections" in the southern hemisphere, each with almost identical statues and similar collections. He assembled an extraordinary collection and then donated the entire assemblage to Cape Town in 1861. He continued to purchase rarities and other manuscripts and donated his second collection from his private library to Auckland. Grey gathered items from classic European book culture, as well as artifacts and…
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Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector Hardcover - 2006
by Donald Kerr
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- Title Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector
- Author Donald Kerr
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 351
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Otago University Press, New Castle, DE
- Date December 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781584561965 / 1584561963
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007295331
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1584561963 . This unread As New/As New copy is beautifully bound in wine colored cloth ; Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. He was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artifacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed, establishing "Grey Collections" in Cape Town and Auckland. This study, by a former librarian of the Auckland collection, reveals Grey's genius and magnanimity as well as the controversy and complexity surrounding his apparent remoteness; 8vo .
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