Author: Marie Snow Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394706627
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The First New England Catalogue
Author: Marie Snow Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394706627
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394706627
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country
Author: John Josselyn
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Catalog Number ...
Author: North, Ernest Dressel, firm, booksellers, New York
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Bibliography and the Book Trades
Author: Hugh Amory
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203909
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203909
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.
Fashioning the New England Family
Author: Kimberly S. Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936520138
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-cherished pieces of clothing that were acquired alongside papers such as letters and diaries. Because of the different storage requirements for textiles and manuscripts, these survivors-many of them hundreds of years old-have largely been divorced from their familial ties. Fashioning the New England Family, an initiative encompassing a fall 2018 exhibition and this companion volume, reconnects the textiles with the associated stories carried in the family papers. Generously illustrated with full-color photographs of garments, fabrics, and accessories, including exquisite detail shots, the book creates a lasting overview of the exhibition but also delves into specific topics. The chapters cover a spam of more than three hundred years, tracing the history of New England clothing from the colonial seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary eighteenth century, and into the national nineteenth. In these pages, readers will find a fragment of Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins Alden's dress; Governor John Leverett's bloodstained buff coat, which saw battle in the English Civil War; and the luxurious Spitalfields green silk damask wedding dress and shoes that Rebecca Tailer Byles wore at her 1747 wedding in Boston. Across these examples and more, the text traces patterns of global production and local consumption and reuse, demonstrating how New Englanders used costume to establish their situation, especially in terms of class and gender, and also to express their political affiliations. Patriots and loyalists-Hancocks, Adamses, Dawses, and Olivers-make many appearances, as they are so well represented in the society's rich holdings. Manuscripts drawn from the collections-receipts, daybooks, account books, diaries-further amplify the historical insights, even at times making it possible to interpret the way in which a specific garment may have embodied one individual's sense of identity. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936520138
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-cherished pieces of clothing that were acquired alongside papers such as letters and diaries. Because of the different storage requirements for textiles and manuscripts, these survivors-many of them hundreds of years old-have largely been divorced from their familial ties. Fashioning the New England Family, an initiative encompassing a fall 2018 exhibition and this companion volume, reconnects the textiles with the associated stories carried in the family papers. Generously illustrated with full-color photographs of garments, fabrics, and accessories, including exquisite detail shots, the book creates a lasting overview of the exhibition but also delves into specific topics. The chapters cover a spam of more than three hundred years, tracing the history of New England clothing from the colonial seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary eighteenth century, and into the national nineteenth. In these pages, readers will find a fragment of Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins Alden's dress; Governor John Leverett's bloodstained buff coat, which saw battle in the English Civil War; and the luxurious Spitalfields green silk damask wedding dress and shoes that Rebecca Tailer Byles wore at her 1747 wedding in Boston. Across these examples and more, the text traces patterns of global production and local consumption and reuse, demonstrating how New Englanders used costume to establish their situation, especially in terms of class and gender, and also to express their political affiliations. Patriots and loyalists-Hancocks, Adamses, Dawses, and Olivers-make many appearances, as they are so well represented in the society's rich holdings. Manuscripts drawn from the collections-receipts, daybooks, account books, diaries-further amplify the historical insights, even at times making it possible to interpret the way in which a specific garment may have embodied one individual's sense of identity. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England
Author: John Farmer
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Catalog, 1903
Author: Indiana State Library
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Private Libraries in Renaissance England
Author:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Catalog of Books
Author: Bernard Quaritch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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