The Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection provides a broad overview of printed material from the 1780s through 1949. Gathered by book collector Mavis Eggle, the collection serves as a social history of books, newspapers, and ephemera. Physical characteristics of the books include a variety of printer's marks, publishers' bindings, bookplates, and early subscription libraries. The collection's titles are a diverse and creative gathering of poetry, children' literature, religious texts, broadsides, newspapers, and popular fiction. Together, the items in the Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection illustrate changes in literature, printing and publishing, advertising, and book history over a time period of more than 170 years.
The Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection provides a broad overview of printed material from the 1780s through 1949. Gathered by book collector Mavis Eggle, the collection serves as a social history of books, newspapers, and ephemera. Physical characteristics of the books include a variety of printer's marks, publishers' bindings, bookplates, and early subscription libraries. The collection's titles are a diverse and creative gathering of poetry, children' literature, religious texts, broadsides, newspapers, and popular fiction. Together, the items in the Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection illustrate changes in literature, printing and publishing, advertising, and book history over a time period of more than 170 years.
Collection is open for research. See Libraries' catalog for titles described individually in more detail, which are also part of this collection. Arrangements must be made in advance to access digital files and are only available in the Special Collections and Archives reading room. Please contact UNLV Special Collections and Archives for additional information.
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. The donor, Beverly Rogers, acknowledged that they held no copyrights in the donated material when they transferred ownership of the Mavis Eggle "Books As They Were Bought" Collection (MS-01144) to UNLV. However, some material may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproductions and use or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Materials are grouped by material type.
Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection, approximately 1780-1949. MS-01144. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 2023 by Beverly Rogers as part of the Beverly Rogers Rare Book Collection; accession number 2023-016.
In 2023, the manuscript materials were inventoried, organized, and rehoused by Sarah Jones. The finding aid and front matter was written by Sarah Jones and updated on an ongoing basis as materials are cataloged.