Special Collections Department

THE MARK SAMUELS LASNER COLLECTION

The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection is associated with the Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library, but is privately owned. The collection, housed in the Morris Library, focuses on British literature and art of the period 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and on the writers and illustrators of the 1890s. Its holdings comprise 2,500 first and other editions (including many signed and association copies), manuscripts, letters, works on paper, and ephemera.

Please note that materials in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection are not listed in DELCAT.

Access is by appointment only.


WILLIAM MORRIS A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press Hammersmith, 1898	D. G. ROSSETTI Jane Morris Pencil drawing, 1870	ALBERT MORROW Poster for The New Woman by Sudney Grundy Lithograph, 1894

OSCAR WILDE The Sphinx London, 1894	AUBREY BEARDSLEY Autograph letter to G. F. Scotson-Clark. August 1891	Photograph of "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper] Bristol, c. 1884-87

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Mark Samuels Lasner
Senior Research Fellow
University of Delaware Library
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Gerald Cloud
Associate Curator of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
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