Author: George D. Smith Book Co
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A Catalogue of Rare Books, Original Drawings, Extra Illustrated Works, and Other Interesting Literary Material, Chiefly from the Library of the Late Augustin Daly
Author: George D. Smith Book Co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520929934
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. He completed the writing of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published the major collection Sketches, New and Old, became a leading contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, and turned The Gilded Age, the novel he had previously coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner, into one of the most popular comedies of the nineteenth-century American stage. His personal life also was gratifying, unmarred by the family tragedies that had darkened the earlier years of the decade. He and his wife welcomed a second healthy daughter and moved into the showplace home in Hartford, Connecticut, that they occupied happily for the next sixteen years. All of these accomplishments and events are vividly captured, in Mark Twain's inimitable language and with his unmatched humor, in letters to family and friends, among them some of the leading writers of the day. The comprehensive editorial annotation supplies the historical and social context that helps make these letters as fresh and immediate to a modern audience as they were to their original readers. This volume is the sixth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted. The 348 letters it contains, many of them never before published, have been meticulously transcribed, either from the original manuscripts (when extant) or from the most reliable sources now available. They have been thoroughly annotated and indexed and are supplemented by genealogical charts, contemporary notices of Mark Twain and his works, and photographs of him, his family, and his friends.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520929934
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. He completed the writing of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published the major collection Sketches, New and Old, became a leading contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, and turned The Gilded Age, the novel he had previously coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner, into one of the most popular comedies of the nineteenth-century American stage. His personal life also was gratifying, unmarred by the family tragedies that had darkened the earlier years of the decade. He and his wife welcomed a second healthy daughter and moved into the showplace home in Hartford, Connecticut, that they occupied happily for the next sixteen years. All of these accomplishments and events are vividly captured, in Mark Twain's inimitable language and with his unmatched humor, in letters to family and friends, among them some of the leading writers of the day. The comprehensive editorial annotation supplies the historical and social context that helps make these letters as fresh and immediate to a modern audience as they were to their original readers. This volume is the sixth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted. The 348 letters it contains, many of them never before published, have been meticulously transcribed, either from the original manuscripts (when extant) or from the most reliable sources now available. They have been thoroughly annotated and indexed and are supplemented by genealogical charts, contemporary notices of Mark Twain and his works, and photographs of him, his family, and his friends.
The Bibliographer
Author: George Henry Sargent
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Extending the Book
Author: Erin C. Blake
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Extending the Book introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration -- individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published books -- and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. It includes a brief introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works of Shakespeare -- the most popular single author for extra-illustration -- exemplify the practice as it changed over time. From the beginning, extra-illustrators had to defend the "exquisite handicraft" (in the words of an 1890 proponent) against accusations of "breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one" (in the words of an 1892 critic). This book examines the art and the practice of extra-illustration, from crudely altered books to beautiful new creations.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Extending the Book introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration -- individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published books -- and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. It includes a brief introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works of Shakespeare -- the most popular single author for extra-illustration -- exemplify the practice as it changed over time. From the beginning, extra-illustrators had to defend the "exquisite handicraft" (in the words of an 1890 proponent) against accusations of "breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one" (in the words of an 1892 critic). This book examines the art and the practice of extra-illustration, from crudely altered books to beautiful new creations.
The New York Dramatic Mirror
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Circular
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
House Beautiful
Author:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art
Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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