Hepburn Collection

This collection comprises over 300 volumes bequeathed in 1971 by Charles A. Hepburn, Glasgow whisky distiller, philanthropist, art collector and bibliophile. These are mainly first editions of 19th-century English novelists and poets. There are also a number of fine bindings and a dozen fore-edge paintings.

 

How to find material from the Hepburn Collection

 

• Browse a list of titles of printed material from the Hepburn collection (Sp Coll Hepburn); alternatively, use the rare books search to locate printed items
• There are a small number of manuscripts shelved at MS Hepburn (follow link "list collection content" to see a list of titles) 
• Charles A. Hepburn bequest: an exhibition of printed books and manuscripts Web exhibition.

See also the following web articles that feature items from the Hepburn collection:

 

• Fore-edge paintings in the Hepburn Collection (Flickr set: April 2013)
• Heraldic manuscript England?: c 1625 (Book of the month: February 2008)
• R. S. Surtees Handley Cross London: 1854 (Book of the month: November 2005)
• Charles Dickens Bleak House London: 1852-53 (Book of the month: November 2004)
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy London: 1765-1769 (Book of the month: October 2000)
• Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass London: 1872 (Book of the month: March 2000)