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These important and distinguished collections combine rare printed volumes, manuscripts, correspondence and personal papers, as well as sound and visual materials documenting Barton College, eastern North Carolina and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The North Carolina Collection also houses the Hackney Brothers Body Company Collection. Materials from Special Collections are used in exhibitions and classroom teaching, providing a great depth and richness to Hackney Library’s ongoing teaching mission.
The most valuable book in the collection, A Collection of Poems by William Shakespeare was printed in 1709 in London, England.
The title page of A Collection of Poems by William Shakespeare. [A COLLECTION OF POEMS, VIZ. I. VENUS AND ADONIS, II. The Rape of Lucrece, III. The Passionate Pilgrim, IV. The Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick. By MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. LONDON, Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet. Price bound One Shilling Six-pence.]
