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The Life, Motto, and Library of William Walker (1570-1642), Vicar of Chiswick
February 12 @ 6:00 pm PST
Co-presented and co-hosted by The Book Club of California, The Bibliographical Society of America and the American Trust for the British Library.
Feb 12, 6:00pm Pacific Time
An in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_759LIhnbSYGbxvT3eh4DjQ
Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid inscription: “Will and Walke aright. Will: Walker,” usually appearing on the title-page of a printed book, or on the first or last leaf of a manuscript.
This talk will attempt to identify the author of the inscription and the owner of the books and manuscripts in new detail; to reconstruct William Walker’s small but unquestionably significant personal library; and to trace the history of the “best” manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Old Arcadia.”
An in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley