Books and manuscripts by and about Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870), writer of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and many other works.
Special Collections houses the largest collection of works by and about Alexandre Dumas père outside France. The collection was formed by Frank Wild Reed, the older brother of the publisher A. H. Reed.
Highlights of the collection are:
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2000 sheets of original manuscripts by Dumas
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500 first editions in French and English of Dumas' plays and novels
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Newspapers such as Le Mousquetaire
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The Robert Singleton Garnett collection of Dumas' works
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Associated materials such as film posters and portraits of Dumas
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Maps by Cassini of pre-industrial France
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Memoirs and biographies of many of Dumas' contemporaries (Balzac, Nodier, Hugo)
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51 typescript volumes of Frank Reed's translations, letters, and bibliographies
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Background sources for many of Dumas' works
Illustration from La maison de Savoie published in Turin by C. Perrin, 1852-56.
The exhibition Celebrating Dumas: His life & legacy held July - October 2002 showcased the collection on the occasion of the bicentenary of Dumas' birth.
Access to the Reed Dumas collection is through the library catalogue. |
