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catalogue of DS Mitchell’s library in his hand, c. 1877, ML c369 The latest publication date for any of the volumes listed is 1877. It may have been compiled at the time of Mitchell’s removal to 17 Darlinghurst road, which was in that year. 46 Mitchell’s collecting interests were wide, including medieval manuscripts, early printed books, elizabethan drama and voyage literature, the standard writers of the eighteenth century, and nineteenthcentury poetry and fiction. The theatre was a lifelong passion. he had performed in some private theatricals in Sydney when young and avidly collected published plays all his life. There are many Australian books in this catalogue, though still a small percentage of the total collection. (right) Inscription in Isocrates, Isokratis=Isocratis: Orations et epistolae, Parisiis: editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1846–47, DSM/Q885.4/1: ‘Davidi Scott Mitchell/ Baccalaurei in Artibus gradum/ consecuto/ fausta et felicia omnia/ precatus/ carolus Nicholson/ Universitatis Sidneiensis/ Praepositus/ comitiis Maximis’ [To David Scott Mitchell, graduate in Bachelor of Arts, a prayer for all future happiness and good fortune from charles Nicholson, head of the Great Assembly of the University of Sydney] Mitchell’s collection contains the standard books on book collecting, some of which he had acquired by the time this catalogue was compiled around 1877. Listed in the catalogue is a copy of Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Bibliomania, or, book madness, 1811. 47 Inserted in Bibliomania is a sheet of notes signed by the London bookseller, Joseph Lilly, and dated February 1864, so perhaps Mitchell acquired the book as early as that date. Listed also in this manuscript catalogue 36 A GrAND OBSeSSION: The DS MITcheLL STOry
A GrAND OBSeSSION: The DS MITcheLL STOry 37
Page 5: Supported by
Page 9 and 10: Foreword David Scott Mitchell (1836
Page 11 and 12: Contents Message from Her Excellenc
Page 13 and 14: David Scott Mitchell: A life and a
Page 15 and 16: [cumberland Place] Sydney, watercol
Page 17 and 18: neglect to his studies’ as report
Page 19 and 20: The legend of 17 Darlinghurst Road
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Page 25 and 26: we would ever see this. I have been
Page 27 and 28: ‘A national monument to his memor
Page 29 and 30: some several hundred items, were de
Page 31 and 32: Mitchell, usually inscribed in the
Page 33 and 34: Notes 1. elizabeth Guildford, ‘Mi
Page 35 and 36: David Scott Mitchell’s family tre
Page 37 and 38: The collector collected ‘he start
Page 39 and 40: libellus published in Venice in 149
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Page 61 and 62: Notes 1. It has been estimated that
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