Author: David C. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Shakespeare Thefts
Author: Eric Rasmussen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230341209
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans. The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230341209
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans. The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages.
Christ Church Letters
Author: Joseph B. Sheppard
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Christ Church Letters. A Volume of Mediaeval Letters, Relating to the Affairs of the Priory of Christ Church Canterbury
Author: I ..... B ..... Sheppard
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Works of Thomas Hill Green: Philosophical works
Author: Thomas Hill Green
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Category : Philosophy, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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Category : Philosophy, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914
Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241258
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
19th-century British culture in the autograph hand. Original manuscripts of Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, etc. Commentary.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241258
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
19th-century British culture in the autograph hand. Original manuscripts of Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, etc. Commentary.
Letters of the Kings of England
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Worcester ...
Author: John William Willis Bund
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
John Dee's Diary, Catalogue of Manuscripts and Selected Letters
Author: John Dee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
These editions (1842-1920) are fascinating for the immediacy of John Dee's accounts of his life as a Renaissance scholar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
These editions (1842-1920) are fascinating for the immediacy of John Dee's accounts of his life as a Renaissance scholar.
Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain
Author: Brand
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Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description