{"id":2,"date":"2018-03-20T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:20:40","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. H. Rocke Robertson Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UBC Rare Books and Special Collection (UBC\u00a0RBSC) Library is found on the 1st floor of Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. It is a closed-stack collection, so you have to request an item, and a librarian will find it for you!<\/p>\n<p><b>Dr. H. Rocke Robertson (1912-1998) collection\u00a0<\/b>is one of the special collections at RBSC.\u00a0<b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. H. Rocke Robertson became interested in lexicography and avidly collected English dictionaries. In 1989, he donated most of this collection to UBC. This collection spans the history of the English dictionary, consisting of over 350 dictionaries and encyclopedias! This collection can be viewed at <strong>UBC RBSC<\/strong>. See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rbsc.library.ubc.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more information if you are interested in visiting!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/guides.library.ubc.ca\/spcoll_English_Literature\/robertson\">Click here<\/a> for more information about the collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058-624x1110.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_6058.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inner cover of Blount&#8217;s Glossographia, 1661 edition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blount\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glossographia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is only one of the many diverse works in this collection. The collection also contains other editions of <em>Glossographia<\/em>, including the 1670 edition, and the fifth edition published in 1681.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC Rare Books and Special Collection (UBC\u00a0RBSC) Library is found on the 1st floor of Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. It is a closed-stack collection, so you have to request an item, and a librarian will find it for you! Dr. H. Rocke Robertson (1912-1998) collection\u00a0is one of the special collections at RBSC.\u00a0Dr. H. Rocke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/glossographiablount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}