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The State Library of Victoria has received an extraordinary bequest which will place it on the world map for historians and literary scholars who work on the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
The bequest was the gift of John McLaren Emmerson, QC, who died last year. Emmerson, who began collecting books in the 1960s, had two distinguished careers – first as a physicist at Oxford University. On returning home to Melbourne in the 1970s, he began a new career as an intellectual property barrister.
