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Monica Oppen

Artist (Printmaker)

An artist herself in the fields of book art and printmaking, Oppen is also a prominent collector of artists' book. She established a library of artists' books called the Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, which is based in Sydney and accessible to the public by appointment.

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Baillieu Library Special Collections, University of Melbourne, Vic.

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The Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, comprise some 200,000 rare or historic books, serials and pamphlets and literary archives.

The McArthur Bequest (1903) was the first substantial donation to the University Library, which has been followed by, among others, the Sir Russell Grimwade, Ian McLaren and Clern Christesen collections acquired in the 1970s.

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http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/

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