A Catalogue of Rare Books, Original Drawings, Extra Illustrated Works, and Other Interesting Literary Material, Chiefly from the Library of the Late Augustin Daly

A Catalogue of Rare Books, Original Drawings, Extra Illustrated Works, and Other Interesting Literary Material, Chiefly from the Library of the Late Augustin Daly PDF Author: George D. Smith Book Co
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Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The Collector

The Collector PDF Author: Walter Romeyn Benjamin
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. PDF Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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Extending the Book

Extending the Book PDF Author: Erin C. Blake
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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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.

Catalogue, 1906

Catalogue, 1906 PDF Author: Staten Island Academy, New Brighton, N.Y. Arthur Winter Memorial Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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A Bibliography of Henry James

A Bibliography of Henry James PDF Author: Leon Edel
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Entries on James' original works, contributions to books, published letters, contributions to periodicals, translations, and miscellanea contain full descriptive and historical accounts of the physical form in which the novelist's works and writings were given to the world. Each entry gives detailed notes on size, color, binding and printing, advertisements, dates, and contents. Some include comments made about the edition by James. The first edition was published by Rupert Hart- Davis in 1957. The third edition was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1982. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Catalogue of the Extensive Dramatic Collection of the Late James H. Brown ...

Catalogue of the Extensive Dramatic Collection of the Late James H. Brown ... PDF Author: James Hutchinson Brown
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Sale

Sale PDF Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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The Dial

The Dial PDF Author: Francis Fisher Browne
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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"The Pen's Excellencie"

Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"The Pen's Excellencie" selects one hundred manuscript treasures from the roughly 55,000 manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It provides a window onto a vast landscape of experience, seen over the past seven centuries.Perhaps the only common feature of these remarkable texts is that someone wrote them with his or her own hand. Since they are notable examples carefully culled from many thousands of manuscripts, the writers tend to be reasonably well known - John Donne, Edmund Spenser, James Boswell, George Eliot, and letters by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Verdi, Dickens, Twain, Whitman, and Buffalo Bill. Both manuscripts that are priceless in terms of literary or historic interest and those that are fascinating or beautiful to look at are represented. While there are a handful of colorful, attention-grabbing manuscripts, most are deceivingly humble at first glance, written in inscrutable hands in brown ink. The earliest item, a copy of twelve works by Aristotle, is from the early fourteenth century. The latest item, from 1928, is a short poem by A. A. Milne.