Esperanto collection donated by William Auld


Bill Auld		Addressing an Esperanto congress in the 1960s


A rare copy of the first, disastrous, English translation of Zamenhof's introduction to Esperanto. The first page of text shows all too clearly the translator's limitations.


The second English translation produced a more acceptable version. Zamenhof suppressed the first translation in favour of this superior text.

Brief information about the Library's Esperanto collection is on the Rare Books News Archive page.

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