UVic Libraries is delighted to announce that The Seghers Collection: Old Books for a New World has been awarded a third prize in the prose non-fiction illustrated category for the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2014. All the award winning books are posted to the Alcuin Society website, showcased in an awards catalogue produced by the Alcuin Society, and exhibited nationally and internationally.
The Seghers Collection: Old Books for a New World by Dr. Hélène Cazes is the first publication under the University Libraries' imprint. The publication explores the bibliographic history of the Seghers Collection, their spiritual and religious significance within the catholic tradition and their attributed owner, Charles John Seghers, (the second Archbishop of Victoria. The Seghers Collection consists of approximately 4,000 books on Catholic theology and church history, canon law, liturgy and ritual, canonization and monasticism on permanent loan from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria at the University of Victoria Libraries in Victoria, British Columbia.
The Seghers books are of interest not only for their content, but also for the light that they throw on book production, printing, illustration, and binding, especially on the European continent from 1550 through to the end of the hand-printing era.
The book is available:
– UVic Library: http://voyager.library.uvic.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=983&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=2966736
– Online: http://archive.org/details/seghers_collection_oldbooksnewworld OR
