Prepared in the Interests of Book Collecting at the The ,nUARTO University of Michigan

No.7! He drew his inspiration not [june 1944 [rom books, but [rom Nature. Plagiarism, That's What! From all I have heard 0/ him, his convictions, quietly converting I judge him to have been a others to his point of view . He was Right a fter we sent out the ar­ veJ')! dull man. (Eugene Field) a follower of Chatham and Rock­ ticle on the forty books considered ~""'_~ f"'4: ingham and became Whig leader signi ficant enough to merit indi­ on ly because of the death of those librarian Charles F. Butler, now a vidual articles in the D ictionary of two men; otherwise he probably sergeant in the AAF. He believes Amcrium History, our foolish con­ never would have become Prime that many Americans have been temporary, the ALA Bulletin, pub­ Minister. Throughout the years of reading Mr Cousins' books for gen­ lished an article on "Books That the Ameri can Revolution, he was erations. What disturbs the ser­ Influen ce American T hought and in the opposition, not as an ora­ geant is the fact that these books­ Action" by Norman Cousins (Feb. torical baiter of the ministry but and perhaps th e printed word gen­ 1944). At the outset, Mr Cousins as a quiet arguer against th e gov erally, you librarians - have pro­ altered his assignme nt by choosing er n men r' s fo olish policies. His duced so little effect. Aye, there's the books that shou ld influence speeches that achieved publication the rub! It req uires on ly a few men thought and action in Ameri ca. are so few that we arc delighted to who activel y and wilfully deny the Then he selected th e Federalist acquire them whenever one turns faith in democracy declared by our papers, Padover's Complete Jeffer· up. philosophical democrats to turn the Jon, the writings of Tom Paine, We felt particularly fortunate to world to barbarism again. Walt Whitman, and Heinrich obtain only last month Lord Shel Co nspicuously absent from the Heine, a nd Stern's L iie and IVrit­ burne's Speech :. .on the Conven list, of course, is th e Bible. To keep ings of Lincoln. tio n with Spain, London, tt 79 1?, our list American, we would speci­ Of course, any man composing An added fillip, not to say mystery fy Goodspeed 's translation of the such a list becomes sitting game to the purchase was the dealer's New Testamen t. After all, if we for all pot shots. Not being a bib­ note that only one other copy of would only allow our thoughts and liographer, Mr Cousins a pparently this pamphlet has been locat ed in actions to be in fluenced by that overlooked the errors and omissions America-in the Public Library of slim volume, we would resolve the in the Padover edition of Jefferson. Seattle! Possibly because th e speech whole problem raised by Mr ~Ve are waiting to dip into the relates to th e Nootka Sound affair Cousins. HHP forthcoming definitive edition of whi ch is the earliest episode in the all of j efferson's writings to be diplomatic history of th e United ed ited by Julian P. Boyd at Prince­ The Marquess of Seattle States. ft1IP ton. From this monumental work, As has been observed by others, perha ps a new one-volume J effer­ th e n umber of speeches delivered Battle of the Sexes son will be compiled. Since Mr in Congress is no measure of a Misogynists, take heartIWe are Cousins does not specify editions of Represen tative's or Senator's effec­ ha ppy to report that co-education the Federalist papers and Tom tiveness as a legislator. Much more has not inv ested every precin ct of Paine's writings, we arc going to influence is exercised by the Con­ the campus. Searching through the recommend the Sesquicentennial gressman who can offer a few wise ranges in th e General Library de­ , Edition ( ' 937) of th e former and suggestions in committee confer­ voted to college catalogues, we M. D. Conway's ed ition of the lat­ ences or in discussion with his col­ found th ese publications in alpha­ ter. leagues around his own hearth. betical order by name of th e issuing Among the solicited comments (C/. the late Senator Huey Long college. This struck us as al most too on Mr Cousins' selections, we es­ with the late Senator James sim plified and logical a cla ssifica­ pecially liked Helen T. Steinbar­ Co uzens.) tion to be a pproved by library ger's plea (or substituting Benjamin Lord Shelburne, whose political scientists. However, at the end of Franklin for Heine. By all meansl correspondence is in the Clements the a lphabet- Yale, as we recall-a BF was a much wiser democrat than Library, was one of those self-effac­ fresh alphabet began of the cata­ either Heine or Whitman, to our ing party leaders in th e British logues of women's colleges. This way of thinking. Easily the most House of Lords. With remarkable manly segregation somehow heart­ provoking comment came from ex- consistency he stood faithfully for ened us th e rest of th e day. lilt P Wa shin gton 's cop y being lettered The General Library's Rare Book in gi lt "PRESIDENT O F U R oom ho uses so me impre ssive STATES" 'and j efferson's copy be­ manu script books and some im­ ing simila rly let tered "T HE SEC­ ponant incunables, but it possesses RETARY Of STATE". Co pies not even a page from an early may have been bound in the same block book. An example of th is fashio n for the secretaries of the kind of book is urgently desired. Treasury and 'Var, the Postmaster­ If ),ou ha ve a stray copy clutte ring General ami the Attorney-General. up your parlor ta ble, how's about Washington's copy is owned by a it? /}~ ~ ((. $ 1 Connecticut collector; Jefferson 's "In Memory of Th is scholar with visage benign copy is owned by Dr R an dolph G. Adams , Director of the Clements Herbert C. Ely" Ignores ancient books for old wine. In the memory of his friends a H e sampled his beaker Library; who owns the other copies mall can live long, but when those Then named the rich leaquor: - if they exist? friends arc gone remembrance van­ " Napoleon 1 8-o-9! " ~ " r: 0 (lnter alia: The Law Library has Fisher Ames ' copy. in original ishes. Statues and buildings and boards, autographed.) C ~ plaq ues procla im the fame of a man Two Known, Four to Go and he is remembered un til a new One of the several sensible actions Block Books generat ion whispers "'Vhat. did he by the members of the first session When J ohnny Gntenberg wh it­ do?" But in libraries, the contents of the first Congress of the United tled out hi s fi rst specimen of wood­ of whi ch arc used and re-used, the States was their order to prin t the en type with his pen-knife - some name of a giver of books or the acts of that session at the earli est time befo re his expe riments with name of a man in whose memory possible moment. In the first place. metal type-casting - he was but books are given lives forever, for it aut he nt ic printed co pies were imitating earlier knife-experts. He is sufficient that he gave books to a needed desperately by the officials only added movability to individ­ libra ry. Such men have joined the of gove rnmen t and, in the second ual letters; th ere had been printing nobl e com pany whose ranks include place, the country as a whole was in Europe for nearly a hundred Sir T homas Bodley, John R ylands, vitall y interested in those acts be­ years and in the Orient for several Cardinal M azarin, Lorenzo di cause by them would the coun try hu ndred. Books wh ich preceded Medi ci, J ohn Harvard, H. C, Folger, fu nction. Between 1789 an d 1799 those of j ohnn y's time were block and Pierpon t Morgan. several editions were published ­ books, each page being pri nted To this procession of great book­ each of them attractive in its own [rom a separate block combining men, we add two of the most recent fashion. T he most interesting edi­ illustration and text. The crude an benefactors of the Clemen ts Library, tion is the undated edition in folio of block books flourished in the .\Ir J ohn Wa tling an d the late H er­ printed at New York by Francis early pan of the fifteenth century bert C. Ely. It is in memory of the Childs and J ohn Swai ne (who de­ and is an important link between latter that Mr W atling has given scribed themselves as "Printers to books in manuscript and boob generously to the Library a sum of the U nited States") in 1789; it is printed from movable type. The mone)" to establish a collec tion of the most interesting edi tion because tedio us physical labor of caning books relating to early American it is certain ly the one used by at blocks for boob probably' initiated drama. The University has long least two of the principal members J oh nny's harder search for an bad a few specimens in this field of governmen t, the President and ea sier method of p roducing p rinted and we are now in a position to his Secretary of Sta te. pages. The success of his invention draw them toge ther an d add to We know the whereabouts of ousted th e block book from the them in such a way that the subjec t George \Vashington 's and T homa s bi bliopole's shelves. may be studied adequately. The j efferson's copies and we would like These earliest prin ted books were first two acq uisitions from the to know whet her or not other mem­ meant for the use of the common W atling.Ely Iurul a re T homas God­ bers of \ Vashington's cabinet re­ peo ple - the educated groups clung frey's [ uuenile Poems [Ph iladel­ ceivcd copies similarly bound. Both to their expensive manu scripts ­ phia, 17( 5). wh ich contains the Washington 's and Jefferson's cop ies and were limited to Bible stories pl ay "The Pri nce of Parthia" ­ are bound in full tree calf, the and moral lessons. T he stories and "the earliest known traged y written backstrips gi lt tooled with rayed lessons were told in pictures. some by an American"- , and Ralph ova ls, small flor al garlands and tiny of them very forcefully and vividly, J am es s T he Fashionable Lady suns; each cover is bordered with an with only as much text as the semi­ (Lo ndon, ' 730), " probably the first in tricate Greek key roll and in the literate could absor-b. As {or the print ed play hy a native American center of each Front cover there ill iterate; the pictures them selves act ually prod uced by profession al is a rectangu lar onlay of moro cco, were presumed to suffice. pla yers:' cs Conversation on Michigan cause their provenance and asso­ has ever seen, made hy Mr Betts, ciation can be traced. You have of London, th e man who makes In 182'1, a John Graeme Melish only to recall t he astonishing prices the In terrogatory Maps, th e man was oppressed hy tho ug hts uf th e brought by books whi ch have no who holds the Queen's lette rs low level of American conversa­ appeal except th e bookplate of patent. Here, I'll open the box a mi tio n-people talking about the price George 'Va ~hingtoll in th em. show you the world, lon g an d slim of butter a nd eggs, the latest Paris This characterist ic trend was ern­ - like a cigar - until I lift it out, styles. oth er peoples' children, and phasized anew at the two auction grasp it firmly and push up! There similar un edifying subjects. John sales held recen tly of the New-York you are, folks, Mr Bctts's Patent decided th at he would do some­ Historical Society's duplicates. The Port able Globe! Works like an um­ thing about this sad condi tion, and catalogues were searched a t the brell a, ma de of the finest steel and he did. He produced A Dialogue libraries on this campus, and a th e best ch in tz, printed clearly in o'tl th e GeobT1" ap hy of the U nited gratifyingly large proportion of the color, tells you where you arc at States, Comprised in a Pack of Ce o­ items were found 10 be owned al­ a ny hour of the day, carry it with ?,Ttlf}hiclll Co nversati on Cards (New ready by the U niversity of Michi­ you on trips to Africa or the South York, 182-1), which probahly made gan. However, th ere were certain Seas. Press the catch and - Po uf! ­ people a gre at deal more interested books not here wh ich were h ighly it closes, just like an umbrella. Step in talking about the election of desirable. T he Gen eral Library, the a little closer, folks, see the collaps­ John Quin cy Ad ams. The set of Law Library, and the Clements ible Patent Portable Globe! C.S "Conversation Cards'" (the Clem­ Library submitted bids and secured en ts Library acquired a set recently, a total of 28 items. The Clements complete with title-page. instruc­ Library placed several bids made Want List tions, a nd card boa rd slip case) con­ possi ble by th e generous assistance "It pays to advertise" is not an sists of th irty slips bearing printed of two frien ds. I t is proud to have Eli zabethan proverb, but th e say­ questions and answers and thirty increased its holdin gs out of the ing applies very well wh en it comes small (3!1f by 2% in ches) colored superabundance of the second old­ to finding books in which Eliza­ ma ps of slates an d territories. Two est historical society in America.tHft bethan and seven teenth century dull, but earnest, players are needed proverbs appear. The editors of the for the ga me; one to read th e ques­ "A. Lincoln " Proverb Dictionary were gratified tions and one to look at the maps by the response to their appeal in and ponder the an swers. The pro­ The donor of th e Clements Li­ th e last Qua rto. To .. Edward A. fess was "calculated to ma ke an brary's Lincoln Collection, Mr A. Henry. librarian at th e University indelible impression on the mind" 1I. Greenly, has just added mag­ of Cincinnati, and Colonel T homas and we shall never Iorget that th e nificently to his gift. We have nu­ M. Spaulding of Washington, D. c, n umber of counties in Michigan merous ed itions of the Lincoln and their thanks for letters concerning was eigh t, tha t the scat of govern­ Douglas Debates (issued in 1860 at books wanted . If these good gent le­ ment was Detroit, and that th e Cincinnati) for it is one of the men, or any others eq ually good population of the state was 8,896 more interesting and perplexing of and interested, could tell th e editors souls. It is in con tem pla tion of all nineteen th century bibliogra phi­ how to beg or borrow (did we say this so rt of ornamental learning cal problems. We have never had, steal? ) any of the following titles, that we often wonder if th ere ever th ough. that most fascinating vari­ they would earn undying gratitude were any " Good Old Days". C5 ety of the work-a copy signed by in th at small comer of the scholarly Lincoln. Mr Greenly has mad e up world : that deficien cy with an excellen t Association Books Poor R obin's Alrnanack, 1664 to copy, and few single items have T he current exhibition at the early eighteenth century, (inciden­ brought us a warmer feeling than Clements Library of books formerl y tally, th e spiritual antecedent of this association treasure. ] ust out of belonging to famous collectors and Franklin's Poor R ichard); Daniel curiosity, we'd lik e to know whether other libraries re minds VIsitors th at Rogers, N aaman The Syrian, 1642; there is an y copy of the book known extensivc collections of rare books Thomas Walkington, The O ptick. to exist wit h both Lincoln's and are built u pon extinct libraries. Glass of Humors, 1607; Daniel Douglas' signatures. W hat about it, The fruits of a collector's zeal arc Tuvil, Vade Mecum: A Manuall of Mr Angle? CS often d ispersed at auction by h is - - Essayes Morrall, Theologicall, t629 esta te; libraries still active sell o II (earlier ed itions were published in duplicates. From these sources the Right this Way! .608 and 1609); George T urber­ rising collec tor secures item s for th e Ste p a litt le closer, folks. Crowd vill e, Tragical T ales, 1587; Andrew library he is form ing. Evidences of - around a hit there. so the other .Yarra nton, England's Improvement previous ownership, far from de­ jealous map col lectors can't. see b" Sea and Land, 1677; W i11 iam s t roy i ll~ the value of old books. wh at we ha ve. Here it is, the neat­ Hugh es, The Man of Sin; or a Dis- afford th em an added value be- est little portable globe tlte world cOW'se of Popery, ,677. E. 41 on 60th "T he Collecting of viewed as an escape from war. At Recently one of the readers in Rare Books" least we have heard more than one the Cl ements Library. R ich ard soldier on camp us admit to an in­ At thc instiga tion of the Uu iver­ terest in an ything tha t did not re­ Walden Hale. j r., of Boston. was Slly Extension Service. two of th e investigating the history of the la te to the a rm y. Still. we were ed itors of T he Quarfo d ug in to gratified and agreeably asto nished Briti sh foth Regiment, first kno wn what they laughingly call their as th e Royal Americans and today by the demonstrated fact that rare bra ins and laid out a course of lec­ books have a constan t and continu­ as ' he King's Royal R ille Corps, tures on "The Collecting of R are Our manuscripts yielded a good ing a ttraction, even to persons not Books:' It was offered in the main actively collec ting. deal of information on the early room of tile Clements Library and years of the regiment, when it wa s O ur thanks to J acob Blanck for ran for eight su ccessive .Monday his salute to the course in The Pub­ raised in America to fight in me ~Iarch eveni ngs, starting on 27. An iishrrs' II'eek ly for May ' 3. C ~ -nn? French ami Indian W ar and when extra (n in th) lecture. sponsored by it guarded the western frontier. the Library, was delivered by ~lr Cherchez la Femme, etc. Later Dr H ale sen t us h is account H . W . Tribolet of the Lakeside This n e ll' book , AI)' D eu r ..Lad) · of the R egiment. a remarkabl e Press on modern tine binding. by M . B. Greenbie. implies that the story of wh ich Englan d and Am er­ Being normally pessimistic a bout lad)' (Anna Ella Carroll) was fre­ ica could both be proud. We wai ted the appeal of such a course. the on ly a suitable occasion for p ub­ quently consu lted by President lish ing it. Lincoln in making important deci­ O ne fine day it was communi­ In Print sions. Having absorbed that in­ cated to us that His Britannic C le ments Library Bullet in Iormation we were abo ut to dismiss Majes ty's A m bassa d or, Vis count XLI: 'r ile ]{v)'al Americans, the dear lady [rom our mind when Halifax, would visit the campus by Richard Walden Hale. jr, we received a lener from the legal and del iver an address. Phones Ann Arbor. '944. officer in the palace of the Military jingled . buzzers buzzed, presses Colton Storm, Clements Li­ Governor of Hawaii. The officer cla tte red , and when Lord Halifax brary: " Lieu tenant John Arm­ requested immed iate d ispatch of a visited the Library to see our exhi­ strong's Map of the Illinois photosta t of Anna Ella Carroll's R eply fo . . . Breckinridge . . _ bition on the fioth Regiment. we River, .79°" in Journal of the in Defence of . . . th e Suspension handed him a copy of Bulletin 4 ', Illinois Stale Historical Soci­ of th e W rit of H ~beas Corpus, The R oyal A mericans, wi th fron­ ety. March , 1944. Wash in gton, ,86,. tispiece. 23 pages of text, and a Howard Peckham. Clements T he coincidence was heigh tened dazzli ng cover . His Excellency Library:" University 'Var Rec­ by m ystery over the Army's interest stayed to h old his press con fere nce ords" in The lVa,- R ecords in Lincoln 's fri end. Then we read in our Rare Book Room. Here we Collector, May. 1944. a news dispa tch from Honolulu p ull ed out ra bbits No.2 and 3 in Randol ph G. Adams. Clem­ the form of two letters from th e concerning a protest against con ­ ems Library: 'To Studen ts in first Viscoun t H alifax (the ambas­ tinua tion of martial law there, and Wartime' in ~\li("higan Alu m- the Army's defen se of its a brogation sador's grand father) a nd a score of • nus Quarterly R eview, Spring, letters from George H am mond. the ol certain ci ..-il righ ts. Anna. it ap­ first British Min ister to the Un ited '914· peared. was going to the assistance States. of the embattled Army administra­ We felt a mply re paid whe n Lord "professors" hoped they might at­ tors, But her defen se. effective dur­ H alifax asked us for a copy of the tra ct a doze n or so embryonic 001­ ing the w,-jJ War, apparently fail ed bulletin to send to hi s son, who is lecto rs. O n the eve ni ng appointed to convince the courts in this war. an office r in the same 60th Regi­ for the first lecture, they awaited for martial law in Hawaii has since ment, a copy for th e honorary col­ the inaugural hour wit h some trepi­ been lifted. one l, who is King George VI. a ud dation. T he horrid minute ap­ Incidentally. in com plying with a doze n copies for other officers in proached slowly, but the audi ence th e request from H onolulu. we the Regimen t. W e also learned that kept the doors swing ing like a sa­ noticed th at our copy of La Car­ a su rprisingly large n umber of the loon u nt il there were ga thered fifty­ roll's pamphlet is inscribe d " W ith officers in the regimen t are Ameri­ five earnest sou ls in pursuit of what t.he autho r's com plime nts" to our cans, wh o volunteered before Pearl we tho ug ht was a highly specialized old friend, H enry Vignaud, whose H arbor. and we have now sent each subject o f narrow appeal, particu­ library the University purchased in o f them a copy of the hulletin. ~tl"P larly in war time. Possibly it was J9 2 2·1\3ff . ~ ~P

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