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Herbert Read Library (Brotherton Collection)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Herbert Read Library (Brotherton Collection)

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC Read

Additional creator(s): Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) ()

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56624

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

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Personal library of Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), reflecting his career as art critic, theorist, advocate and administrator, poet, novelist and publisher, and much else. The contents range from the rare and unique - such as a proof copy of 'Finnegans Wake', presentation copies of T S Eliot's works, scarce volumes by Marcel Duchamp - to relatively commonplace books annotated by Read himself. Read's own works are well represented and his collection of art exhibition catalogues is extensive. A large collection of Read's professional and personal papers is also held.

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Profile: Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968)

Poet, critic, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and knighted anarchist. Herbert Read was the son of a Yorkshire farmer who became one of the leading critics of art in Britain in the middle 20th century. His personal library of 14,000 volumes came to the University of Leeds in 1996.

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Herbert Read Collection

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The Herbert Read Collection is comprised of the Library and Archive of Herbert Read, First World War poet, art historian, editor, publisher, novelist and literary critic.

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