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CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 94 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #307 - ORIGINAL ART BY MAUD HUMPHREY FOR GALLANT LITTLE PATRIOTS #357 - Meggendorfer Das Puppenhaus (The Doll House) #357 - Meggendorfer Das Puppenhaus #195 - Detmold Arabian Nights #526 - Dr. Seuss original art #326 - Dorothy Lathrop drawing - Kou Hsiung (Pekingese) #265 - The Magic Cube - 19th century (ca. 1840) educational game Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] THE ITEMS IN THIS CATALOGUE WILL NOT BE ON RARE TUCK RAG “BLACK” ABC 5. ABC. (BLACK) MY HONEY OUR WEB SITE FOR A FEW WEEKS. -
Views Before That August Body and the Parliament Which Was Back of It, in Hopes That He Might Inñuence the Final Form of the Church Discipline
1936.] Report of the Librarian 153 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN THE USE OF THE LIBRARY TN accepting membership in the American Anti- -•• quarian Society in 1915, the Right Honorable Sir George Otto Trevelyan, distinguished historian of the American Revolution, said: "Recognition from such a body as the American Antiquarian Society has for me a value of a rare character. I shall never see Worcester or enter the Library in which henceforth I should have the privilege of reading but I accept the position of membership with gratitude and pleasure." Many other English and Continental scholars have been more fortunate than Sir George and have spent happy and profitable hours within these walls. This summer as never before our reading room has, at times, been thronged with historical students occupying every available seat. The follower of the curious hobby of license plate hunting would have been richly re- warded by an examination of the cars parked about our building, for he would have found plates from almost every state in the union in the course of a few midsummer visits. As soon as the last college class has been dismissed many a historian packs his travelling bag and the notes for his forthcoming volume and turns the prow of his trusty car toward Worcester. The subjects of their inquiries are of infinite variety and all of their problems are interesting. A scholar from the University of Kansas wished to know when aerial photography began and was delighted when we produced a balloon photograph of Boston taken, believe it or not, in 1860. -
Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640
Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640 Studies in the History of Christian Traditions General Editor Robert J. Bast Knoxville, Tennessee In cooperation with Paul C.H. Lim, Nashville, Tennessee Eric Saak, Liverpool Christine Shepardson, Knoxville, Tennessee Brian Tierney, Ithaca, New York Arjo Vanderjagt, Groningen John Van Engen, Notre Dame, Indiana Founding Editor Heiko A. Oberman† VOLUME 171 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/shct Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640 Edited by Torrance Kirby P.G. Stanwood LEIDEN • BOSTON 2014 Cover illustration and Frontispiece: ‘A sermon preached in the presence of King James I at Paul’s Cross’. The Society of Antiquaries’ diptych commissioned by Henry Farley in 1616 and painted by John Gipkyn. Scharf XLIII, Way/Museum No. 304, Burlington House, London. By kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries, London. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Paul’s Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520-1640 / edited by Torrance Kirby, P.G. Stanwood. pages cm. -- (Studies in the history of Christian traditions, ISSN 1573-5664 ; VOLUME 171) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-24227-2 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-26281-2 (e-book) 1. Preaching-- England--London--History--16th century. 2. Preaching--England--London--History--17th century. 3. Sermons, English--16th century. 4. Sermons, English--17th century. 5. St. Paul’s Cathedral (London, England) 6. London (England)--Church history--16th century. 7. London (England)--Church history-- 17th century. I. Kirby, W. J. -
Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection MC.100
Charles Roberts Autograph Letters collection MC.100 Last updated on January 06, 2021. Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Charles Roberts Autograph Letters collection Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................7 Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 7 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................7 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 9 110.American poets................................................................................................................................. 9 115.British poets.................................................................................................................................... 16 120.Dramatists........................................................................................................................................23 130.American prose writers...................................................................................................................25 135.British Prose Writers...................................................................................................................... 33 140.American -
In the Name of Jefferson. Critical Review of Denise Spellberg's Book
THÉMATA. Revista de Filosofía Nº49, Enero-junio (2014) pp.: 337-340 ISSN: 0212-8365 e-ISSN: 2253-900X In the name of Jefferson. Critical review of Denise Spellberg’s book Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an1 Antonio de Diego González Universidad de Sevilla (España) [He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion” (T. Jefferson quoting John Locke, 1776). With this quotation begins the book, which studies for the first time the relationship between Islam and the Founders of the United States of America. Denise A. Spellberg, Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin, has written an amazing book about the polemics of the late 18th cen- tury concerning Islam. Being Jefferson the focus of her research, then she conceptualizes the before and the after of the strange relationship between Islam and western thought. Islam is, still for many people, a strange belief in the western world. It is commonly associated with an obscurantist vision developed traditionally by western Christian authorities and recently with neo-conservative move- ments. Also, since 9/11 the image of Islam has suffered an aggressive rally against it, regardless of the important role, which Islam played to develop the right of religious freedom in the States. So, this book is necessary in order to exorcise ghosts and prejudices against legitimate Muslims, which profess Islam in the States. It also generates the debate about the drift of religious tolerance in America. The core of the book is devoted to express how and why Thomas Je- fferson chose Islam to fight against the Protestant idea of the religious test. -
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Five Hundred Years of Fine, Fancy and Frivolous Bindings George bayntun Manvers Street • Bath • BA1 1JW • UK Tel: 01225 466000 • Fax: 01225 482122 Email: [email protected] www.georgebayntun.com BOUND BY BROCA 1. AINSWORTH (William Harrison). The Miser's Daughter: A Tale. 20 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. First Edition. Three volumes. 8vo. [198 x 120 x 66 mm]. vii, [i], 296 pp; iv, 291 pp; iv, 311 pp. Bound c.1900 by L. Broca (signed on the front endleaves) in half red goatskin, marbled paper sides, the spines divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others tooled with a rose and leaves on a dotted background, marbled endleaves, top edges gilt. (The paper sides slightly rubbed). [ebc2209]. London: [by T. C. Savill for] Cunningham and Mortimer, 1842. £750 A fine copy in a very handsome binding. Lucien Broca was a Frenchman who came to London to work for Antoine Chatelin, and from 1876 to 1889 he was in partnership with Simon Kaufmann. From 1890 he appears under his own name in Shaftesbury Avenue, and in 1901 he was at Percy Street, calling himself an "Art Binder". He was recognised as a superb trade finisher, and Marianne Tidcombe has confirmed that he actually executed most of Sarah Prideaux's bindings from the mid-1890s. Circular leather bookplate of Alexander Lawson Duncan of Jordanstone House, Perthshire. STENCILLED CALF 2. AKENSIDE (Mark). The Poems. Fine mezzotint frontispiece portrait by Fisher after Pond. First Collected Edition. 4to. [300 x 240 x 42 mm]. -
Shakespeare in Geneva
Shakespeare in Geneva SHAKESPEARE IN GENEVA Early Modern English Books (1475-1700) at the Martin Bodmer Foundation Lukas Erne & Devani Singh isbn 978-2-916120-90-4 Dépôt légal, 1re édition : janvier 2018 Les Éditions d’Ithaque © 2018 the bodmer Lab/université de Genève Faculté des lettres - rue De-Candolle 5 - 1211 Genève 4 bodmerlab.unige.ch TABLE OF CONTENts Acknowledgements 7 List of Abbreviations 8 List of Illustrations 9 Preface 11 INTRODUctION 15 1. The Martin Bodmer Foundation: History and Scope of Its Collection 17 2. The Bodmer Collection of Early Modern English Books (1475-1700): A List 31 3. The History of Bodmer’s Shakespeare(s) 43 The Early Shakespeare Collection 43 The Acquisition of the Rosenbach Collection (1951-52) 46 Bodmer on Shakespeare 51 The Kraus Sales (1970-71) and Beyond 57 4. The Makeup of the Shakespeare Collection 61 The Folios 62 The First Folio (1623) 62 The Second Folio (1632) 68 The Third Folio (1663/4) 69 The Fourth Folio (1685) 71 The Quarto Playbooks 72 An Overview 72 Copies of Substantive and Partly Substantive Editions 76 Copies of Reprint Editions 95 Other Books: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 102 The Poetry Books 102 Pseudo-Shakespeare 105 Restoration Quarto Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays 106 Restoration Adaptations of Plays by Shakespeare 110 Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 111 5. Other Early Modern English Books 117 NOTE ON THE CATALOGUE 129 THE CATALOGUE 135 APPENDIX BOOKS AND MANUscRIPts NOT INCLUDED IN THE CATALOGUE 275 Works Cited 283 Acknowledgements We have received precious help in the course of our labours, and it is a pleasure to acknowl- edge it. -
Noticing the Dead: the Biographical Sketch in Victorian Periodicals
Noticing the dead: The biographical sketch in victorian periodicals Author Macleod, Jock Published 2017 Journal Title Victorian Periodicals Review Version Accepted Manuscript (AM) DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2017.0040 Copyright Statement © 2017 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/374236 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Noticing the Dead: The Biographical Sketch in Victorian Periodicals JOCK MACLEOD Writing about Harriet Martineau in Macmillan’s Magazine in May 1877, John Morley drew attention to the importance of her “biographic sketches” of significant figures in the field of journalism. Martineau, who had died the previous year, had published numerous sketches of the recently dead for the Daily News between 1852 and 1863, many of which were collected in Biographical Sketches (1869).1 For Morley, these were “masterpieces in the style of the vignette. Their conciseness, their clearness in fact, their definiteness in judgment, and above all the rightly-graduated impression of the writer’s own personality in the background, make them perfect in their kind.”2 In reviewing Martineau’s work, Morley was himself writing a biographical sketch, a genre that was widespread in periodical literature by the middle of the nineteenth century. Accounts of recently dead editors and contributors ranged from obituaries and memoirs to reviews of books (especially biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies), but many were simply brief sketches of recent or earlier nineteenth century journalistic figures. -
EHS NL February 2011
February 2011 Volume 1, Issue 3 Elham in the Snow There has certainly been an excellent opportunity during the beginning and end of 2010 to go out and snap a few pictures of our lovely village in the snow. Therefore the EHS Committee feel that it would be a good time for you to send us your own favourite photographs that you have taken. They need not be from 2010, in fact the older the better, so here are a few to get you thinking. Ideally we would prefer you to email them to us, making them no bigger than 5 MB in size – Thank You. Elham, March 1909 Elham, Dec 2010 Move to formally become the Elham Historical Society The members of the EHS committee cannot believe that twelve months have gone by since they “volunteered ” to help set up the Elham Historical Study and the sight of over 40 prospective members at the first public meeting in May 2010 was very encouraging. Since then we have gone from strength to strength and now have over 80 members, therefore your committee are keen to ensure the ongoing success of the group. From the outset it has always been the aim of the committee to seek to formally become a society and with the upcoming first birthday event in April of this year we feel that the time is right for that move. We have now drafted a constitution and have determined a small number of elected roles so that members can vote for their favoured candidate at the April meeting. -
Emily Finer Dombey in Zhitomir for MLR Sept 2018
Emily Finer, University of St Andrews Dombey in Zhitomir, Pip in Taganrog: Reading Dickens ‘as if for life’ in Russia Abstract Many Russian writers have been eager to demonstrate their intense childhood attachment to the novels of Charles Dickens. This essay focuses on the narrative strategies used by Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) and Nelli Morozova (1924-2015) in their autobiographies to convey the importance of reading Dickens in their formation as writers. It argues that David Copperfield offers a useful model for understanding how Korolenko and Morozova write about reading, and that, rather than distancing Dickens and his characters from their global readership, translations increase proximity and facilitate empathetic readings. Dombey in Zhitomir, Pip in Taganrog: Reading Dickens ‘as if for life’ in Russia It is not surprising that authors describe their early immersion in fictional worlds as positive and even therapeutic in their autobiographies. This essay examines three autobiographical texts, from England, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union, focusing on the narrative strategies used to write about childhood reading. In David Copperfield (1850), Charles Dickens describes Davey’s early interaction with novels as an experience both escapist and comforting.1 Vladimir Korolenko’s short autobiographical story, ‘My First Acquaintance with Dickens’ (1912), portrays his first encounter with a translation of Dombey and Son as a catalyst in his development as a reader.2 Nelli Morozova structures her entire 1 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (London: Nonesuch Press, 1937), p. 54. 2 V. Korolenko, Moe pervoe znakomstvo s Dikkensom (1912) in Sobranie sochinenii v 6 tomakh (Moscow: Emily Finer Page 1 autobiography, My Passion for Dickens: A Family Chronicle (1990), around readings and re- readings of Dickens’s novels in Russian.3 All represent their relationships with characters or authors to be as valuable as actual friendships, to have the potential to be sustained over a lifetime. -
Job's Colophon and Its Contradictions1 There Are Many
Job’s Colophon and Its Contradictions1 Thomas M. Bolin, St. Norbert College There are many parts of the Bible that people find boring: the genealogies in the first eight chapters of 1 Chronicles, the description of the ark and tabernacle in Exodus 25-31 (re- peated in chapters 35-40) or of the temple in 1 Kings or Ezekiel. These texts are often over- looked by readers because they are long, detailed, and repetitive. But these qualities are also what make them noticed. They must be acknowledged before they are skipped over or other- wise left unregarded. In contrast, the lowly biblical colophon has nothing similar by which it can assert itself to the reader. Colophons often go by unnoticed. They are the textual equiva- lents of the human appendix: structural relics of a bygone time that have outlived their useful- ness. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of ancient text forms. At best they can yield form-crit- ical data, as Michael Fishbane has argued on the basis of colophons in the legal collections of Leviticus and Numbers;2 or be used as evidence of redactional activity, such as the colophon in Psalm 72:20 which denotes the end of a collection of Davidic psalms,3 or be read to glean information about ancient Israelite scribal practices, as is the case with Karel Van Der Toorn’s use of Hos 14:10.4 The Anchor Bible Dictionary, the premiere multi-volume reference work of the past generation, contains no entry on the colophon. The work of Chaim Gevaryahu re- mains the most recent detailed study of the phenomenon,5 but he studies colophons in order to explain the origin of biblical superscriptions. -
THE Holy QURAN and the ORIENTALISTS: Literary PERSPECTIVE
THE HOLy QUPAN AND THE ORIENTALISTS: LITERARY PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT ^nhmitM jTor tf}e fiegtee of Sottor of $l)iIos(opti? IN Arabic Literature BY TOWQUEER ALAM llnd»r th« Supervision of Dr. ABDUL BARI Professor and Chairman DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 1991-92 The holy Quran beinq a Book of guidance to the human so^ ' ^ty as a whole, has been a subject of discussion since its revelation period. Enormous contribution in the form of leading articles, research papers of high standard and com prehensive books regarding its majestic teachings, whether pro and against^ from the side of the Muslims or non-Muslims, provide an overt proof for its extra ordinary importance, un- comparable to any manifestation of human science and intellect. The teachings of the holy Book being revolutionary in its character, provide a complete guidance to the human being for adopting 'the right path as proposed by the Omnipotent God for a Successful life in this world and the world Hereafter. This aspect of study of the holy Quran is purely religious. The preservance oE the Revelation, its specific arrangement, majestic presentation, omission and addition, rhyme and rhythm andjabove all, its miraculous character, both from the point of view of ideology and literature, testify for its being a marvellous literary monument, :fer above in excellence» in com- prision to any human endeavour , irrespective of age and place. I am not hesitant,at all, to concede that the Occidental scholars, although not altogether free from biased thinking, have contributed a lot, so far as their intellectual endeavours are concerned.