Author: George D. Smith Book Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
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:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
"The Pen's Excellencie"
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"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.
... The Artistic and Literary Collections of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell ...
Author: American Art Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Catalogue ... of the Literary and Artistic Property of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell
Author: Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Catalogue in Six Parts ... of the Literary and Artistic Property of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell
Author: Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Catalogue of the Collection of Works of Art Presented to the British Red Cross Society
Author: British Red Cross Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Catalogue in Six Parts, Of...the Literary and Artistic Properties of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell Other Than that Taken by Harvard University...
Author: Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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.